microsoft / microsoft/TypeScript-TmLanguage
Wrong scope "support.variable.property.dom"
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Description
Properties of my own object fall under the scope of "support.variable.property.dom":

This covers a significant number of commonly used words:

This clearly looks like a bug.
I cannot fix this in my color scheme for example by changing the "foreground" to my normal property color because if I define "name" property as a functional expression it still falls under "support.variable.property.dom" and does not change to "entity.name.function" as it happens with normal properties and as a result is not colored in my function color:


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Reproduce the reported highlighting with the scopes support.variable.property.dom and entity.name.function, using the screenshots and examples in the issue as the reference. Trace the TypeScript grammar rules that assign scopes to object properties and verify that ordinary properties and function-valued properties receive the intended scopes when the behavior is corrected.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
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- Stale
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