microsoft / microsoft/monaco-editor
[Bug] Wrong syntax highlighting for reStructuredText
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Description
Reproducible in vscode.dev or in VS Code Desktop?
- Not reproducible in vscode.dev or VS Code Desktop
Reproducible in the monaco editor playground?
- Not reproducible in the monaco editor playground
Monaco Editor Playground Code
.. math::
.. hello:: asd
.. line-block::
.. line-block:: aaa
.. lineQ-block:: aa
.. lineQQ-block:: aa
.. lineQQQ-block:: aa
.. lineQQQQ-block:: aa
.. lineblock:: aaa
.. line-block::
Actual Behavior
Half of directives in the example code are treated as comments:

Expected Behavior
All rst directives in the example code should be successfully determined by tokenizer.

According to https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#directives:
Directive types are case-insensitive single words (alphanumerics plus isolated internal hyphens, underscores, plus signs, colons, and periods; no whitespace)
Also note that directive arguments are optional, thus a whitespace after "::" is optional too.
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Research direction
Start with the Monaco Editor playground and the provided reStructuredText example, then inspect how its tokenizer classifies directive names and optional arguments. Compare the actual and expected highlighting for the listed directive forms; done means valid directives are no longer treated as comments.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
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
- 42/100