ES6 backticks not interpreted correctly

For example, save a file as .js containing:

const a = `b = ${b}`;
const b = `http://${host}/mydir/`;
'string';
// comment

In the case of a, the b = is black as if it were code. Only the ${b} is code, and b = is like a string. With b, the // is interpreted as a comment (which it isn’t) and the rest of the line is green.

Compare github’s rendering of the above with FlashDevelop’s.

This is on 5.1.0.3, win7x64sp1 (no updates available when I checked just now.)

[Neverbirth]

String interpolation works now too in the internal Scintilla build used here. This implementation is generic and would be able to support multiple interpolation syntaxes, so hopefully it will be approved by the Scintilla people. Still a couple of things missing in Haxe, but for most use cases it should be fine:

[Neverbirth]

That’s right, this change will hopefully add string interpolation support in a way Scintilla developers will be able to add it also to other languages.

I cannot give an exact date, but I don’t think it should take too much longer. Most issues found so far have been fixed.