Variable name highlighting wrong within curly braces

[bland328]

The code with a problem is:

VAR1="$VAR2"	# correct
VAR1="${VAR2}"	# incorrect

It looks like:

It should look like:

${VAR2} should be highlighted like $VAR.

[jeff-hykin]

This is what it looks like for me. Are you on the latest version?

[bland328]

The latest version did fix this (and so many other issues that I was preparing to downgrade VS Code), so thanks very much!

I wasn't using the latest version because I didn't understand that there was such a thing, and here's why:

I first reported a highlighting issue at microsoft/vscode#177621, and it was moved here with the explanation that "We switched to a better maintained shell script syntax highlighting grammar recently and we're still working out the bugs."

So, I came here and started reporting other bugs without understanding that better-shell-syntax is not just built into VS Code, but is also an installable extension that might be superior to what's built-in.

Assuming I really do understand the situation correctly, perhaps a prominent "if you are here to report issues, make sure you've manually installed the extension" message at the top of both README.md and the Bug Report template would save both you and naive users like me some pain :)