Semantic Highlighting Meta Issue #3982

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1. Sydney Smith (SydneyhSmith)

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   Issue-BugA bug to squash.A bug to squash.

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6. AspenForester commented on Jun 30, 2022

   

   JB Lewis (AspenForester)

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   Am seeing a likely-related issue where one commented line will be properly formatted (green & italic), then when commenting another line the hash mark is green and italic, but the leading variable token(?) is only italicized while the rest of the line is properly formatted.
   Restarting the session will result in both lines being fully, correctly formatted.
   VSCode 1.68.1
   PowerShell Extension 2022.6.1

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7. andyleejordan commented on Jun 30, 2022

   

   Andy Jordan (andyleejordan)

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   JB Lewis (@AspenForester) are you certain you've manually enabled semantic highlighting? It is off by default.
8. AspenForester commented on Jun 30, 2022

   

   JB Lewis (AspenForester)

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   from settings.json

   "[powershell]": {
           "editor.semanticHighlighting.enabled": true,
       }
9. andyleejordan commented on Jun 30, 2022

   

   Andy Jordan (andyleejordan)

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   Thanks for the confirmation!
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15. Justin Grote (JustinGrote)

    added sub-issues on Jan 30, 2025

    • Semantic Highlighting should recognize a function that doesn't follow noun-verb format if defined in the same document #3830
    • Version v2021.2.2 doesn't highlight the #Requires statements #3211
    • Extension overwrites native colors of the theme #2959
    • Semantic Syntax is incorrectly highlighting arguments as commands #2860
    • Add support for all token types with the new semantic highlighting #2852
    • Semantic Highlighting: Namespace types incorrectly highlighted as functions #3997
    • Semantic Highlighting breaks when rapidly typing due to improper cancellation PowerShellEditorServices#2216
16. Wallby commented on Apr 4, 2026

    

    Maarten ten Velden (Wallby)

    on Apr 4, 2026

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    Does this cover the issue with multi line here strings?

    Never mind, this seems to be expected behaviour that I misunderstood. It's indentation related.

    $text = @"
    ...
    "@
    

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