Bad (but legal) line continuations break highlighting

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, python
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Reproduce the Python snippet with the escaped line continuation and DOS line endings in a supported editor, then trace the syntax-highlighting behavior for those inputs. Done means legal continued strings highlight correctly and files with DOS line endings no longer show red ^M markers on the affected lines.

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Description

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Repro:

    'bad lines are continued \
     like this. do not do it!'

Red ^Ms appear in files with DOS line endings (even though they don't appear on other lines):
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Dominant language
JavaScript
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