example blocks in docstrings are highlighted as code in 1.57.1

[lmiq]

When using the pre-release 1.57.1, example blocks in docstrings get highlighted as code (I guess this is not intentional):

(in an ideal world they could have a custom syntax highlighting in shades of the comment color - but that's something else)

[baggepinnen]

+1 on this, I have found it much harder to navigate files now when code blocks in docstrings look identical to code

[mcabbott]

+1, the code-vs-comment is a much more important distinction than function-vs-bracket within a comment.

(Julia 1.12's display of docstrings at the REPL has the same problem, although I can't find the issue right now. Some super-subtle change was eventually made so that they aren't technically exactly identical.)

[pfitzseb]

Caused by https://github.com/julia-vscode/julia-vscode/pull/3852.

An easy way to add some distinction between code blocks in docstrings and actual code is to add something like

    "editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
        "textMateRules": [
            {
                "scope": "meta.embedded.block.julia",
                "settings": {
                    "fontStyle": "italic"
                }
            }
        ]
    }

to your settings, resulting in

Otherwise, we can revert that PR -- afaict it's not possible to make this configurable.

[lmiq]

I would rather have that italic by default and without the colors. Unless we can define a different set of colors, more like shades of the comment color.

[pfitzseb]

This isn't something we have control over in this extension. Styling gets decided by the theme, not the grammar -- the config snippet above could also replicate your theme's styling with e.g. darker colors or less saturation or something like that, but that's obviously not going to be generic.