PHP Syntax highlight doesn't handle {$variables} in double-quoted strings

[php4fan]

I have reported this also against VSCode itself, because it does do PHP syntax highlight even without any extension, and I believe that if they do syntax highlight for any given language they must do it right.

However, I assume the extension also improves syntax highlight, right? so maybe this is also relevant for the extension.

The screenshot should speak for itself, otherwise see microsoft/vscode#199790

[jakubmisek]

Correct; thank you for reporting it to vscode.

We are extending the highlighting with our semantic (to improve the colorization of type names in doc comments), so I assume we could do it for string interpolation. If vscode team won't reply any time soon, we may implement it.

[jakubmisek]

Tracked on KapitanOczywisty/language-php#15

[jakubmisek]

It looks like this issues has been fixed in the recent VSCode (mine is 1.86.2):

[jakubmisek]

The highlighting seems to work as expected now.

We still need to trigger suggestion when a user types $ inside double-quoted strings:

• trigger suggestion when typing $ in double-quoted strings

[jakubmisek]

The next pre-release will trigger suggestions after typing $ in a string!

The highlighting seems to be fixed in the latest VSCode as well.