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Regular Expression Syntax Highlighting only recognising control characters if uppercase #1063

@TomStrepsil

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@TomStrepsil

Type: Bug

As per https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Regular_expressions/Character_escape#c:

\cJ and \cj are equivalent

The syntax highlighter in VSCode only puts the uppercase form in blue, seemingly recognising \c as a separate escape and j as a normal character.

It would be good to show both forms in blue.

VS Code version: Code 1.106.3 (bf9252a2fb45be6893dd8870c0bf37e2e1766d61, 2025-11-25T22:28:18.024Z)
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