Syntax highlighting is wrong

[jhaynie]

This may not be a golang specific issue but something in the core package. But it doesn't seem to happen in other non-go files.

Some files, often, when I open them (or select them if already opened), will highlight certain blocks of code that don't seem to have any discernable reason to be highlighted. For example:

If I simply select somewhere in the file and make a change (for example, click space and then delete to remove it), the bad highlights go away and the file is rendered correctly:

This is pretty difficult to work with. I've tried various different themes and all exhibit this behavior so it doesn't seem to be related to that.

I can't figure this out and it's driving me nuts!! :)

VSCode: Version 1.17.0 (1.17.0) be377c0faf7574a59f84940f593a6849f12e4de7
Golang Plugin: Version 0.6.66

Any help would be much appreciated.

[ramya-rao-a]

@jhaynie Sorry for the delay in responding to this issue.

Thats the code coverage showing up.

You might have go.coverOnSave enabled.
Disable that, and those highlights should go away.

Let me know if that doesn't work

[jhaynie]

@ramya-rao-a thanks so much. i never would have figured that out !!!

[ramya-rao-a]

How did you end up enabling the code coverage any way :) ?

[jhaynie]

well, i guess it was turned on but didn't realize the highlighting would only show when i saved it. that wasn't intuitive until you explained it. it might have been better to indicate something in a hover etc.

[ramya-rao-a]

The default value for go.coverOnSave setting is false.

The below is the description of the setting that shows up on hover.

Regardless, am glad that is resolved now. Happy Coding!

[esemplastic]

Dear @ramya-rao-a could you please take a quick look and confirm the #1277 ?