Somewhat misleading escape tokens in String.raw tagged templates
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- tooling
Research direction
Start by inspecting the TypeScript TextMate grammar rules used for template strings and tagged templates, reproducing the String.raw examples in VS Code. Check the displayed escape tokens against the requested behavior, including the unclosed template-string case; done means String.raw content no longer shows misleading escape tokens while meaningful backslashes still affect parsing.
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Description
JavaScript and TypeScript Nightly version:
Code
// Please include a code snippet that demonstrates the issue
String.raw`--some-flag=C:\Some\Windows\Path` // It looks like the first letter of each dir is being escaped
String.raw`"This is\nJSON text\u2757"` // It looks like '\n' is being escaped
Example of how it looks in VSCode
Since String.raw is an EcmaScript standard, it's probably ideal that the grammar shows those string tokens without any escape tokens.
Important to note that backslashes shouldn't be ignored in the pattern, for example:
// ╭─ Template string opener
// ┴
String.raw`\`;
// ─┬─
// ╰─ Unclosed template string content
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- TypeScript
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