String Highlighting Quirk

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DJW

November 21, 2019 16:13

As I'm typing along, I notice that my string highlighting changes as I type, depending on whether the last character of the string is a space or not. Note how the quoted string color changes from blue to black, depending on the last character of the quoted string:

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  DJW

  November 21, 2019 18:30 Edited

  I just realized I'm seeing the same thing when I have "italics asterisks" around some text — the interior text goes from being italicized to not, depending on whether a space precedes the final asterisk:

  

  

  

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  Brett

  November 25, 2019 17:18

  That's how the parser works. In MultiMarkdown's parser (and true across almost all Markdown interpreters), a string isn't italics (or a quoted string for that matter) unless the final character is non-whitespace within the delimiters.

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  DJW

  November 25, 2019 17:27

  Huh. I learn something new every day. It seems weird, but I guess I can understand the logic behind it.

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