remove whitespaceBefore/After from InlayHint, https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/16221

src/vs/editor/common/modes.ts

@@ -1762,8 +1762,6 @@ export interface InlayHint {
 	text: string;
 	position: IPosition;
 	kind: InlayHintKind;
-	whitespaceBefore?: boolean;
-	whitespaceAfter?: boolean;
 }
 
 export interface InlayHintsProvider {

src/vs/editor/contrib/inlayHints/inlayHintsController.ts

@@ -183,8 +183,6 @@ export class InlayHintsController implements IEditorContribution {
 		const fontColor = this._themeService.getColorTheme().getColor(editorInlayHintForeground);
 		const model = this._editor.getModel()!;
 
-
-
 		const newDecorationsTypeIds: string[] = [];
 		const newDecorationsData: IModelDeltaDecoration[] = [];
 
@@ -193,15 +191,12 @@ export class InlayHintsController implements IEditorContribution {
 
 		for (const hint of hints) {
 
-			const { text, position, whitespaceBefore, whitespaceAfter } = hint;
-			const marginBefore = whitespaceBefore ? (fontSize / 3) | 0 : 0;
-			const marginAfter = whitespaceAfter ? (fontSize / 3) | 0 : 0;
+			const { text, position } = hint;
 
 			const contentOptions: IContentDecorationRenderOptions = {
 				contentText: fixSpace(text),
 				backgroundColor: `${backgroundColor}`,
 				color: `${fontColor}`,
-				margin: `0px ${marginAfter}px 0px ${marginBefore}px`,
 				fontSize: `${fontSize}px`,
 				fontFamily: `var(${fontFamilyVar})`,
 				padding: `0px ${(fontSize / 4) | 0}px`,

src/vs/monaco.d.ts

@@ -6665,8 +6665,6 @@ declare namespace monaco.languages {
 		text: string;
 		position: IPosition;
 		kind: InlayHintKind;
-		whitespaceBefore?: boolean;
-		whitespaceAfter?: boolean;
 	}
 
 	export interface InlayHintsProvider {

src/vs/vscode.proposed.d.ts

@@ -1800,14 +1800,6 @@ declare module 'vscode' {
 		 * The kind of this hint.
 		 */
 		kind?: InlayHintKind;
-		/**
-		 * Whitespace before the hint.
-		 */
-		whitespaceBefore?: boolean;
-		/**
-		 * Whitespace after the hint.
-		 */
-		whitespaceAfter?: boolean;
 
 		// todo@API make range first argument
 		constructor(text: string, position: Position, kind?: InlayHintKind);

src/vs/workbench/api/common/extHostTypeConverters.ts

@@ -1156,9 +1156,7 @@ export namespace InlayHint {
 		return {
 			text: hint.text,
 			position: Position.from(hint.position),
-			kind: InlayHintKind.from(hint.kind ?? types.InlayHintKind.Other),
-			whitespaceBefore: hint.whitespaceBefore,
-			whitespaceAfter: hint.whitespaceAfter
+			kind: InlayHintKind.from(hint.kind ?? types.InlayHintKind.Other)
 		};
 	}
 
@@ -1168,8 +1166,6 @@ export namespace InlayHint {
 			Position.to(hint.position),
 			InlayHintKind.to(hint.kind)
 		);
-		res.whitespaceAfter = hint.whitespaceAfter;
-		res.whitespaceBefore = hint.whitespaceBefore;
 		return res;
 	}
 }