Colors on Monokai lost after upgrade to VSCode 1.26

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#130 opened on Aug 13, 2018 3 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Assessment

Difficulty: 3/5
Estimated time: 1-2 days
Newbie friendliness: 32/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Needs clarification
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: powershell, vscode
Domain: developer-experience, tooling

Research direction

Start by reproducing the colorization problem in VS Code 1.26 with the Monokai theme and compare it with the expected behavior shown in the issue. Then inspect the repository's PowerShell syntax-highlighting definitions for the regression; done means restoring the expected colors without affecting other editor themes.

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Description

Environment

Editor and Version (VS Code, Atom, Sublime): VSCode 1.26
Your primary theme: Monokai

Issue Description

Upgraded to 1.26 today, after restart things look weird...

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Expected Behavior

Colorization should work as before.

Dominant language: PowerShell
Stars: 151
Forks: 55
PR merge metrics: No merged PRs in 30d

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