Wrong highlight for raw string

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Difficulty
3/5
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1-2 days
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42/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, python
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reproducing the reported Python snippet in VS Code 1.81.1 using MagicPython and compare the highlighting with the expected and actual screenshots. The work is done when backslashes in the raw string are no longer highlighted as escape characters while ordinary escape sequences retain their highlighting.

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Description

  • Editor name and version: VS Code 1.81.1
  • Platform: any
  • Color scheme: any
  • MagicPython version: 7d0f2b22a5ad8fccbd7341bc7b7a715169283044
  • A sreenshot:
    Expected
    image

Actual: The \ of a raw string is the \ and not the escape character, but the hignlight still treats them as escapes.
image

  • 5-10 lines of surrounding code:
print(r"C:\Users\test")

Originally from @AuroraTea in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/190519

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