Color decorators do not work inside string

[jberkh]

System details:

Positron and OS details:

Positron Version: 2025.03.0 (user setup) build 116
Code - OSS Version: 1.96.0
Commit: 7f0f938
Date: 2025-03-01T19:05:24.180Z
Electron: 32.2.6
Chromium: 128.0.6613.186
Node.js: 20.18.1
V8: 12.8.374.38-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100

Interpreter details:

R.4.4.2

Describe the issue:

Color decorators written as as #RRGGBB do not work when the hash symbol is immediately preceded by a " or '
This issue seems positron-specific as it does not occur in my VSCode 1.97.2 install.

Steps to reproduce the issue:

Expected or desired behavior:

For .R files, I would expect the color decorator scope for the #RRGGBB(AA) notation to be limited to (or at least work for) "#RRGGBB" and "#RRGGBBAA".

[isabelizimm]

Thanks for bringing this up! I can reproduce this locally on Positron Version: 2025.03.0 (Universal) build 116 as well. Noting for future work: this is not necessarily R-specific, as I see the same behavior in .txt files.

[juliasilge]

Related to #2315

[melissa-barca]

Noting for future work: this is not necessarily R-specific, as I see the same behavior in .txt files.

This isn't R specific; however, the VSCode R extension does support color previews for strings so users are most likely to notice a difference in R files. This came up in #8283 as well.

[frumh002]

Another comment from an R users switching to positron. It looks like most colors work but a lot of R-specific colors don't. See below. I enabled the colorize extension and pasted my current settings below. Let me know if there is anything missing so I could preview the R-specific shades.

Colorize JSON settings:

"colorize.languages": [
        "css",
        "sass",
        "scss",
        "less",
        "postcss",
        "sss",
        "stylus",
        "xml",
        "svg",
        "r",
        "quarto"
    ],
    "colorize.decoration_type": "background",
    "colorize.hide_current_line_decorations": false,
    "colorize.colorized_colors": [
        "BROWSERS_COLORS",
        "HEXA",
        "RGB",
        "HSL",
        "OKLAB",
        "OKLCH",
        "ARGB"
    ]