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Highlight menu items on hover

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli

Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named. Review the attached example and locate the menu interaction and rendering entry points, then clarify whether multiple-file tabs are part of the request; done means menu items visibly highlight on hover with behavior matching the example.

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Description

Hello devs, if you get paid by microsoft to work on this, please consider doing this (the fluid menu item highlights)

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/edb01815-6c85-4792-97ac-c543c9bf9b2e

Also maybe add some tabs for multiple file editing? :)
thxx

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