I recently updated to the latest build of Sublime (build 3200), but I’m extremely annoyed by how it highlights deprecated Javascript features.
I get that it’s supposed to be helpful / informative, but it’s highlighting things like ‘escape’ as deprecated terms. I have a script that declares ‘escape’ as something completely different, but I still see the obnoxious deprecated highlighting everywhere. Is there a way to override the Javascript syntax and break this ‘feature’?
Thanks
Yeah, in hindsight that sounds really annoying. I’ve written a PR to remove it. You can disable it locally by downloading this file into your Packages directory at Packages/JavaScript/JavaScript.sublime-syntax. (If you do, make sure to remove it when that PR is released.)
Could you clarify on potential other situations where you are seeing deprecated highlighting?
Late response, sorry.
I’ve determined it highlights at least the following as deprecated:
There may be others, but I would presume this is simply a list of terms that could easily just be found in the js syntax file (the whereabouts of which I know not).
The complete list is: escape and unescape; plus properties named __proto__, __defineGetter__, __defineSetter__, and __defineSetter__; plus nonstandard octal literals (e.g. 01).
The PR removes the special scoping for escape and unescape, but leaves the properties as they are.