PowerShell/EditorSyntax

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PowerShell syntax highlighting for editors (VS Code, Atom, SublimeText, TextMate, etc.) and GitHub!

Stars: 151
Forks: 55
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 68

Dominant language: PowerShell
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Apr 22, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 21, 2026
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68 open issues indexed

"Continue" is highlighted as a statement/keyword when used as a parameter value Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#224 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 22, 2026
HashTable Key TextMate Scope Priority Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#222 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 19, 2025
Function Parameter Not its own TextMate Scope Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#221 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 19, 2025
Variables with curly braces are not highlighted correctly Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#220 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 17, 2025
Hashtable BareWord key highlighting changes with presence of inline comment Open

Issue-Bug

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PowerShell/EditorSyntax#219 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 29, 2025
Code thinks ArgumentCompleter attribute on parameter is the parameter's type Open

Issue-Bug Needs: Triage :mag:

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#217 · Opened May 22, 2023
Attributes not attached to parameters aren't recognized as attributes but as a generic type Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#216 · Opened Mar 23, 2023
Function name not recognized in definition when on different line Open

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#214 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 14, 2022
Syntax Highlighting: region incorrectly highlighted when defined as part of a hashtable Open

Area-Code Formatting Issue-Bug Needs: Triage :mag:

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#213 · Opened Feb 9, 2022
Generic method type parameter support Open

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#212 · 1 reaction · 2 assignees · Opened Jan 27, 2022
Syntax Highlighting doesn't recognize ? as part of a variable name Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#211 · Opened Jan 19, 2022
#Requires syntax highlighting bug Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#210 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 24, 2021
No Syntax Highlighting for `enum` declarations Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#209 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 8, 2021
Version v2021.5.1 Semantic Textmate Scope is incorrect for negative numeric literals, when used as a parameter Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#207 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 5, 2021
Export-Member color coding issue Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#201 · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 10, 2020
Asterisk is not recognized as valid function/cmdlet name character Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#200 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 5, 2020
foreach not scoped correctly after curly brace Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#199 · Opened May 12, 2020
Powershell syntax highlighting disrupted by single quotes in HTML Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#196 · Opened Feb 4, 2020
FTLOG Don't use light gray on a white background Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#195 · Opened Jan 31, 2020
Comment Based Help Keywords and Their Parameters Not Highlighting Correctly Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#194 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 26, 2020
$test:/ - colon is not being parsed correctly on string Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#192 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 21, 2019
Syntax highlighting fails for `using module <relative-path>` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#191 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 7, 2019
[Blocked on PowerShell feature PR 10073] Add support for generalized inline splatting Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#188 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 28, 2019
Update syntax for && and || statement operators Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#187 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 15, 2019
Possible update to syntax highlighting for `??` `??=` `?.` `?[]` operators Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#185 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 11, 2019
Possible updates for the new ternary operator added in PowerShell language Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#184 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 19, 2019
Variable colors are prioritized over hashtable colors for keys in hashtables Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#182 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 14, 2019
TexMate 2 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#181 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 31, 2019
Synxtax color entity.name.type not validated for [type] over storage.type scope Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#179 · 6 comments · Opened Jun 12, 2019
incorrect assertions in test specs Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#176 · Opened May 15, 2019
build.ps1/build_helpers.ps1 issues Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#169 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 30, 2019
Syntax Highlighting Only Helps differentiate between Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#163 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 17, 2019
requires -modules hashtable must only occur in a single line, -psedition missing Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#162 · Opened Mar 9, 2019
PowerShell comment recognition is not correct Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#161 · 6 comments · Opened Mar 6, 2019
PowerShell grammar categorizing member values differently. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#160 · 15 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 18, 2019
Question: Interest in replacing build-grammar.js with a purely PowerShell solution? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#159 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 15, 2019
Highlight keyword default cmd aliases Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#157 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 6, 2019
Long line length string breaks highlighting in Atom and Github Open

bug

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#154 · 8 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 23, 2019
VSCode editor syntax not catching up Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#153 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 31, 2018
keywords scoped in places where not actually keywords, IF inside simple interpolation `()` for instance Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#152 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 29, 2018
Argument mode vs Expression mode Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#151 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 16, 2018
Colorization for variables bleeding into methods and properties accessed using dot notation after VSCode Update Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#150 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 19, 2018
Properties called directly on @(Array) declaration not scoped. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#146 · 7 comments · Opened Sep 12, 2018
stop parsing symbol only ends at end of line, but pipe character is also acceptable Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#144 · 6 comments · Opened Aug 27, 2018
operator NOT (!) duplicated in unary and logical operators scopes, unary takes precedence Open

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PowerShell/EditorSyntax#142 · Opened Aug 25, 2018
scoping of operators is limited immediately following variable name Open

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PowerShell/EditorSyntax#140 · Opened Aug 23, 2018
How we decide on which scopes to use. Open

discussion question

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PowerShell/EditorSyntax#138 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 16, 2018
Rewrite Variable Logic From Scratch Open

enhancement project

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PowerShell/EditorSyntax#137 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 16, 2018
The "scope" named "variable.other.member" includes the dot separator Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#131 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 13, 2018
Colors on Monokai lost after upgrade to VSCode 1.26 Open

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

PowerShell/EditorSyntax#130 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 13, 2018

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