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Multiline colorize function needed

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, jquery
Domain
frontend, web-dev

Research direction

Start by locating the colorize function in the JavaScript editor code and trace how it processes single-line words. Check whether existing tests or examples cover comments and strings, then define completion as correctly colorizing both multi-line comments and multi-line strings without breaking single-line cases.

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Description

Right now, the colorize function can only process words that span in single line only. We need to come up with a solution to process strings that span across multiple lines:

  • multi-line comments
  • multi-line strings
Dominant language
JavaScript
Stars
7
Forks
2
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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