Hacktoberfest 2026: the issues maintainers tagged for October, open and beginner-friendly. Browse Hacktoberfest issues

Syntax highliting issue with this file

Open
#1,052 10 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
tooling

Research direction

The report does not identify the affected file, grammar rule, expected highlighting, or a reproducible example. Start by determining which file exhibits the problem in VS Code 1.96.4 on macOS, then locate the corresponding TypeScript TextMate grammar entry. Done means the reported file highlights correctly without regressing related syntax.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

Type: Bug

syntax highliting is not working properly for this file

VS Code version: Code 1.96.4 (Universal) (cd4ee3b1c348a13bafd8f9ad8060705f6d4b9cba, 2025-01-16T00:16:19.038Z)
OS version: Darwin arm64 24.2.0
Modes:

System Info
Item Value
CPUs Apple M1 (8 x 2400)
GPU Status 2d_canvas: enabled
canvas_oop_rasterization: enabled_on
direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok
gpu_compositing: enabled
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: enabled_on
rasterization: enabled
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
skia_graphite: disabled_off
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: enabled
webgl: enabled
webgl2: enabled
webgpu: enabled
webnn: disabled_off
Load (avg) 2, 2, 2
Memory (System) 8.00GB (0.07GB free)
Process Argv --crash-reporter-id 9073b22e-61a9-4835-8b76-26fbf9fe0b42
Screen Reader no
VM 0%
Extensions (15)
Extension Author (truncated) Version
path-intellisense chr 2.10.0
gitlens eam 16.2.1
prettier-vscode esb 11.0.0
vscode-jest-runner fir 0.4.74
auto-rename-tag for 0.1.10
copilot Git 1.260.0
copilot-chat Git 0.23.2
todo-tree Gru 0.0.226
search-node-modules jas 1.3.0
rainbow-csv mec 3.15.1
vscode-typescript-next ms- 5.8.20250129
quicktype qui 23.0.170
code-spell-checker str 4.0.34
quokka-vscode Wal 1.0.699
vscode-js-console-utils wht 0.7.0
A/B Experiments 
vsliv368:30146709
vspor879:30202332
vspor708:30202333
vspor363:30204092
vscod805cf:30301675
binariesv615:30325510
vsaa593cf:30376535
py29gd2263:31024239
c4g48928:30535728
azure-dev_surveyone:30548225
962ge761:30959799
pythonnoceb:30805159
pythonmypyd1:30879173
h48ei257:31000450
pythontbext0:30879054
cppperfnew:31000557
dsvsc020:30976470
pythonait:31006305
dsvsc021:30996838
dvdeprecation:31068756
dwnewjupytercf:31046870
nativerepl1:31139838
pythonrstrctxt:31112756
nativeloc2:31192216
cf971741:31144450
iacca1:31171482
5fd0e150:31155592
dwcopilot:31170013
stablechunks:31184530
6074i472:31201624
dwoutputs:31217127
9064b325:31222308
copilot_t_ci:31222730
Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
471
Forks
149
No merged PRs in 30d

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from microsoft/TypeScript-TmLanguage

All issues in microsoft/TypeScript-TmLanguage

Similar issues

More TypeScript issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.