microsoft / microsoft/TypeScript-TmLanguage
javascript different highlighting when naming a class method `new`
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Description
class X {
new() {}
abc() {}
}
1.43.2
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Research direction
Start with the JavaScript example in the issue and inspect the repository's TypeScript TextMate grammar files to find how class methods named new are tokenized. Compare the highlighting of new() with abc() in a supported editor. Done means both method names receive the expected consistent highlighting.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100