diff --git a/notebooks/notebook-ui/src/com/intellij/notebooks/ui/visualization/NotebookUtil.kt b/notebooks/notebook-ui/src/com/intellij/notebooks/ui/visualization/NotebookUtil.kt
index 68d6e4737967..c41463fa30c0 100644
--- a/notebooks/notebook-ui/src/com/intellij/notebooks/ui/visualization/NotebookUtil.kt
+++ b/notebooks/notebook-ui/src/com/intellij/notebooks/ui/visualization/NotebookUtil.kt
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ package com.intellij.notebooks.ui.visualization
 import com.intellij.notebooks.ui.visualization.NotebookEditorAppearance.Companion.NOTEBOOK_APPEARANCE_KEY
 import com.intellij.openapi.editor.Editor
 import com.intellij.openapi.editor.EditorKind
-import com.intellij.openapi.editor.colors.EditorColors
 import com.intellij.openapi.editor.impl.EditorImpl
 import java.awt.Graphics
 import java.awt.Rectangle
@@ -41,23 +40,4 @@ object NotebookUtil {
 
     actionBetweenBackgroundAndStripe()
   }
-
-  fun paintCaretRow(editor: EditorImpl, g: Graphics, lines: IntRange) {
-    if (editor.settings.isCaretRowShown) {
-      val caretModel = editor.caretModel
-      val caretLine = caretModel.logicalPosition.line
-      if (caretLine in lines) {
-        g.color = editor.colorsScheme.getColor(EditorColors.CARET_ROW_COLOR)
-        g.fillRect(
-          0,
-          editor.visualLineToY(caretModel.visualPosition.line),
-          g.clipBounds.width,
-          editor.lineHeight
-        )
-      }
-    }
-  }
 }
-
-
-
diff --git a/notebooks/notebook-ui/src/com/intellij/notebooks/ui/visualization/markerRenderers/NotebookTextCellBackgroundLineMarkerRenderer.kt b/notebooks/notebook-ui/src/com/intellij/notebooks/ui/visualization/markerRenderers/NotebookTextCellBackgroundLineMarkerRenderer.kt
deleted file mode 100644
index ea729ba2d73b..000000000000
--- a/notebooks/notebook-ui/src/com/intellij/notebooks/ui/visualization/markerRenderers/NotebookTextCellBackgroundLineMarkerRenderer.kt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-package com.intellij.notebooks.ui.visualization.markerRenderers
-
-import com.intellij.notebooks.ui.visualization.NotebookUtil.paintCaretRow
-import com.intellij.openapi.editor.Editor
-import com.intellij.openapi.editor.impl.EditorImpl
-import com.intellij.openapi.editor.markup.RangeHighlighter
-import java.awt.Graphics
-import java.awt.Rectangle
-
-class NotebookTextCellBackgroundLineMarkerRenderer(private val highlighter: RangeHighlighter) : NotebookLineMarkerRenderer() {
-  override fun paint(editor: Editor, g: Graphics, r: Rectangle) {
-    editor as EditorImpl
-
-    val lines = IntRange(editor.document.getLineNumber(highlighter.startOffset), editor.document.getLineNumber(highlighter.endOffset))
-
-    paintCaretRow(editor, g, lines)
-  }
-}
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