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Freeze when dealing with long (unbreakable) strings

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by opening the attached crasher2.cs.txt and reproducing the freeze with the stated VS Code and Windows versions. Trace C# syntax coloring on the long unbreakable string; done means coloring completes and VS Code remains responsive for that file.

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Description

Bug

From @kwazel on March 15, 2017 7:29

  • VSCode Version: 1.10.2
  • OS Version: Windows 6.1 (Build 7601), Windows 10 Version 1607 (OS Build 14393.0)

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Open a C# file with a long string (e.g. the attached file with extension .cs)
  2. Syntax coloring may start but not progress past the long string
  3. Visual Studio Code will become unresponsive

crasher2.cs.txt

Copied from original issue: Microsoft/vscode#22651

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