Expose monaco-editor instance on vscode.TextEditor

[shaman-apprentice]

I would like to access the monaco-editor instance on a vscode.TextEditor directly. For example to insert ViewZones (see #88483 for detailed motivation).

This would make #85682 obsolete. In general I assume a better experience for developing extensions with direct monaco-editor access, as it removes an abstraction layer, which must be learnt, maintained (and waited for to be created in the first place if it doesn't already exist).

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[jrieken]

There is the renderer and the extension host process. The first is for the UX, the second is a dedicated process in which extensions run. There is no way to expose the Monaco-editor API in the latter because of this