Quick question - verbatim-like environments containing $

[ddbrierton]

Hi,

I just came across issue #237 from 2017 which was closed as unable to fix. I was just wondering if there has been any change since then? It’s not a huge deal, but I am having the exact same problem with one document I’m working on.

Thanks in advance.

[jlelong]

Unfortunately, this is a limitation of vscode's syntax highlighting engine.

[ddbrierton]

Thank you for taking the time to reply, it’s much appreciated. I am a little puzzled by this limitation though, as there are no problems for syntax highlighting when the verbatim environment itself is used:

as compared to when the environment is different:

[jlelong]

The lstlisting example is a bug. This is fixed by jlelong/vscode-latex-basics@bbeea0e

Going back to the original question. The limitation is that a grammar cannot use configuration variables. Currently the following environments are considered as verbatim [a-zA-Z]*code\*? or (fboxv|boxedv|V|v|spv)erbatim\*? and all the environments defined by the minted package.

[ddbrierton]

Ah, now I understand completely. Thank you so much for taking the time to explain the issue.