Extra blank line above and below code listing

Question

I'm trying to use @egreg's answer to this question about obtaining a uniform background colour with the listings package. In my MSE I'm using the acmart class to reproduce the problem from the original question (and thus motivate my use of tcolorbox in the first place), but the problem also arises with article.

The problem is that using tcolorbox to provide a listings environment produces an additional blank line of "padding" above and below the listed code, as shown in the second listing below:

There are two other problems with the tcolorbox solution: the placement of the line numbers differs from the plain lstlistings version, and the width of the shaded region doesn't quite run to the edge of the column. (The latter is not hugely problematic.)

\documentclass{acmart}

\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage[many]{tcolorbox}
\tcbuselibrary{listings}

\definecolor{verylightgray}{gray}{0.9}

\newtcblisting{graylstlisting}[1][]
{
  spartan,
  frame empty,
  boxsep=0mm,
  listing only,
  colback=verylightgray,
  listing options={
    #1
  },
}

\begin{document}

\begin{lstlisting}[
  numbers=left,
  backgroundcolor=\color{verylightgray}
]
f g h
\end{lstlisting}

\begin{graylstlisting}[
  numbers=left,
  backgroundcolor=\color{verylightgray}
]
f g h
\end{graylstlisting}

\end{document}

Is there a way to use the tcolorbox solution for listings backgrounds, without introducing these other differences?

Answer 1

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage[many]{tcolorbox}
\tcbuselibrary{listings}

\definecolor{verylightgray}{gray}{0.9}

\newtcblisting{graylstlisting}[1][]
{
  spartan,
  frame empty,
  boxsep=0mm,
  listing only,
  colback=verylightgray,
  top = 0pt, %<-
  bottom = 0pt,%<- 
  left=0pt,%<- 
  listing options={
   numbersep=10pt,% <-
   xleftmargin=0pt,%<-
   aboveskip = 0pt,%<-
   belowskip = 0pt,%<-
    #1
  },
}

\begin{document}

\begin{lstlisting}[
  numbers=left,
  backgroundcolor=\color{verylightgray}
]
f g h
\end{lstlisting}

\begin{graylstlisting}[
  numbers=left,
  backgroundcolor=\color{verylightgray}
]
f g h
\end{graylstlisting}

\end{document}