PowerShell / PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices
Feature Request: Present regions as independent tokens for syntax highlighter
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Issue-Enhancement
- Dominant language
- C#
- Stars
- 767
- Forks
- 266
- Avg merge
- 3d 16h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 1
Description
Currently, regions are just treated as comments, and thus the new built-in bracket colorizer fails to recognize them as sections. Changing their tokens to non-comments will allow them to be highlighted as such appropriately.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by locating how regions are tokenized and how the built-in bracket colorizer recognizes sections; done means regions are emitted as non-comment tokens and highlighted as sections.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- csharp, powershell
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100