PowerShell escape character is not being detected

Iván Pérez

Hi!

Notepad++ 7.2 (and probably older versions too) is not detecting and applying syntax highlighting properly when there is a escape character in Windows PowerShell scripts (ps1 files). Escape character is ` - see http://ss64.com/ps/syntax-esc.html

Take this piece of code as an example:

# comment

$Path.split("`"") | Where-Object { $_ -and (Test-Path $_) }

# this is not detected as a comment, it appears to be part of a string
$Var += $Path.split() | Where-Object { $_ -and (Test-Path $_) }

This is how it renders in Notepad++:

Screenshot

The string on line 3 seems to never end, so the comment on the next line is not highlighted properly.

Could this be fixed?

Thanks!!