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Highlighting for JSDoc 3.5.0 `@access package` missing

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, vscode
Domain
tooling

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The issue points to VS Code's JSDoc highlighting and the @access values private, protected, and public; start by locating the grammar entry that defines those values. Add matching highlighting for package, then verify in VS Code that @access package is highlighted consistently.

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Description

Noticed it while looking for an explanation on why VSCode had highlighting for the apparently undocumented @api JSDoc tag, see microsoft/vscode#189812.

JSDoc 3.5.0 introduced support for the @package tag together with the corresponding package value for the @access tag. However, the value does not currently have special highlighting in VSCode like the other supported values (private, protected, public).

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TypeScript
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