Comments API: allow specifying which comments are from current user

[hermannloose]

This is for the Comments API, originally suggested in #142081 (comment).

The Comments API should allow extensions to indicate which comments are from the current user. VS Code could then style these comments differently in the comments panel and in the comments rendered in open editors, to provide more visual anchoring for users (in addition to usernames and avatars).

Additionally this would allow more built-in filtering in the comments panel, e.g. showing only the comment threads the current user is involved in, started, posted the latest comment on, etc.

This information could be

• a field on CommentController, e.g. currentUser, to be compared by VS Code against CommentAuthorInformation.name.

  This minimizes necessary work by extensions, but probably works best if CommentAuthorInformation.name is something like a unique username.

• a field on CommentAuthorInformation, e.g. isCurrentUser, to be populated by extensions for each Comment

  This is more work for extensions, but more flexible if an extension uses CommentAuthorInformation.name—documented as a display name—for full names and there might be two different John Smith's in the same set of comments.

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