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JSDoc grammar highlights @return {@link ...} as type

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Reproduce the incorrect handling with the JSDoc example in the issue, then inspect the TypeScript TextMate grammar rules covering @return and inline {@link ...} tags. Done means the link is no longer treated as an invalid type or incorrectly highlighted, while ordinary @return types still work.

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Description

With the following code, TS claims that {@link TreeItem} is incorrect

export interface TreeDataProvider<T> {
/**
 * @return {@link TreeItem} representation of the element
*/
 getTreeItem(element: T): TreeItem;
}

adding a character between return and {@link TreeItem} resolves it.

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