A new line is highlighted per character when typing with unclosed "

[pdearmen]

Product, version and build: Powershell Studio 4.2.99
32 or 64 bit version of product: 64
Operating system: Windows 10 (latest patches as of 1/11/2016)
32 or 64 bit OS: 64
Severity: annoyance (not critical or affecting code that I can see - just annoys me when working on large projects)

Steps to reproduce:
Assume the following code segment:
$pinfo = New-Object System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo
$pinfo.FileName = "powershell.exe"
$pinfo.RedirectStandardError = $true
$pinfo.RedirectStandardOutput = $true
$pinfo.UseShellExecute = $false
$pinfo.createnowindow = $true

if while working on line 2 i go back to edit it to and erase the closing ", for each character (space or otherwise) that I type after the opening " before closing it - a new line is highlighted as though it is enclosed in the "

step 1 - just using the backspace key to remove the " results in one line being highlighted

removingQuotationMark.PNG (7.24 KiB) Viewed 1725 times

step 2 - adding a space

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step 3+ and finally adding another "

closingQuotationresolvesit.PNG (7.37 KiB) Viewed 1725 times

Thanks for all you do - love Powershell studio

[davidc]

I can understand the frustration of the string syntax coloring while editing. This is an unfortunately side effect of the PowerShell language specification, which supports multi-line strings and is one of the main reasons we added auto-quote completion.

David