Syntax highlighting stops without ;

[DustinCampbell]

From @tverboon on January 27, 2017 7:12

Environment data

dotnet --info output:
.NET Command Line Tools (1.0.0-preview2-003121)

Product Information:
Version: 1.0.0-preview2-003121
Commit SHA-1 hash: 1e9d529bc5

Runtime Environment:
OS Name: Mac OS X
OS Version: 10.12
OS Platform: Darwin
RID: osx.10.12-x64

VS Code version: 1.8.1
C# Extension version: 1.7.0-beta1

Steps to reproduce

namespace MyTest
{
    public class ColorTest
    {
        private readonly string _color
        public ColorTest(string white)
        {
            _color = white;
        }
    }
}

Expected behavior

This behavior happens when there is a syntax error (missing ;), so this makes it absolutely clear. Maybe it's a feature 😄 Visual Studio syntax highlighting continues to work for other lines, so I guess most users will expect that to be with VS Code also.

Actual behavior

Edit: It looks like that it only happens within class block and not in a method:

Copied from original issue: dotnet/vscode-csharp#1152

[DustinCampbell]

Note that VS continues to work because there's a proper parser with good error recovery doing the colorization. In VS Code, this is much trickier because it's all done with regular expressions as part of a TextMate grammar. 😦

[tverboon]

Thanks! Will create issues like this in this repo next time.

Still waiting for this one, I guess 😉: microsoft/vscode#585

[DustinCampbell]

You can create issues in omnisharp-vscode repo too. This repo is new. The C# TextMate grammar is here so it can easily be shared among VS Code, Atom, VS, Sublime, etc.

Yes, we're definitely pushing for that.