I don't understand. Are you saying that when inline diff is *disabled* the text is too close to the glyph gutter (the line number sidebar) as to seem almost cut-off?

With inline diff enabled, we do have a column -- the diff sidebar itself. Although it won't be white unless there is no change.

I don't understand. Are you saying that when inline diff is *disabled* the text is too close to the glyph gutter (the line number sidebar) as to seem almost cut-off?

Yes -- I've fixed the typo

See the attached screenshot of 11 and 12 side by side.  If you use Gimp to zoom to 400% you can see that in 11 there are 3 pixels to the left and 3 pixels on the top, while in 12 you have 1 pixel to the left and 2 pixels to the top.  Can we make 12 have 3 pixels for left and right?

This seems to be a regression introduced after the NetBeans editor painting code was rewritten.

I'll see how this can be fixed. Either I try to add that at editor level or I just make the left glyph gutter a bit wider by adding 2 pixels.

Also reported as an upstream bug: http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219392

Added 2 pixels to the left in a sidebar.