Vscode: autoClosingPairs in language-configuration.json doesn't allow multiple entries that use quotes.

[TylerLeonhardt]

I'm looking for a way to support autoClosingPair of:

' ', " ", @' '@, and @" "@

However, when I add, for example:

["@'","'@"] to the language-configuration.json it doesn't work and still autocloses just ' so it looks like @''.

If I remove this entry from the autoClosingPairs, then @' closes properly to become @''@. But then ' no longer completes.

Is there a way to do what I'm trying to do?

[rmunn]

It looks like this is related to #72177, which is a slightly different issue but probably caused by the same underlying bug.

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[TylerLeonhardt]

Since this is an extensibility issue, I find it hard to believe that this will get the required likes to not be closed.

Please consider not doing that...

This can be viewed as a bug (or at least a silly limitation) as I can have auto closing pairs of ' and auto closing pairs of @' but not together.

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[TylerLeonhardt]

Pls no

[rmunn]

It's up to 25 votes now, so I think it's safe. But I agree with what you wrote in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/91714#issuecomment-595524174 about how the autoclose process selects against extension-related issues since a lot fewer people experience them.

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[alexdima]

@TylerLeonhardt This works fine for me on latest VS Code. If I add:

{ "open": "@'", "close": "'@", "notIn": ["string", "comment"]},

to extensions/powershell/language-configuration.json, this is the behaviour I get:

I believe this got addressed as a side effect of https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/commit/37981d8fd5d4ba1619f69dc8a0f4670543d39650 . Can you please confirm?

[TylerLeonhardt]

Awesome - let me give this a test.

Why was this closed? The change will need to be in this repo so that the maximum amount of people are affected (aka those that don't install the PowerShell extension but edit a PowerShell script).

[alexdima]

@TylerLeonhardt I closed the issue because I considered the initial issue is resolved. So now "autoClosingPairs in language-configuration.json does allow multiple entries that use quotes".

Was this issue meant to be about PowerShell specifically? I thought that was given just as an example. Do you want that we add @' and '@ as auto-closing pairs to the built-in PowerShell language configuration?

[TylerLeonhardt]

Thanks @alexdima, makes sense! Yes we should add those to the built-in PowerShell language configuration. I was about to send a PR your way 😄

[TylerLeonhardt]

@alexdima PR sent: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/95245