Syntax Highlighting Doesn't Recognize Line Continuations Within VB6 Comments [duplicate]

Question

I've run into some unexpected syntax highlighting mistakes while I was asking a question about VB6.

When I use _ after using ' to add comments about my code I see that _ does not work within ', but it should.

Here is a screenshot demonstrating the situation:

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-20 10:31:44Z

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Stack Exchange sites are using Google Code Prettify JavaScript module to have those nice colors, so that's actually a problem/bug with "their" code.

(Similar in the sense of problem with Prettify)

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answered Feb 7, 2012 at 9:30

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Mike Samuel · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-30 16:14:29Z

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This is fixed in prettify at revision 203. A new release will be forthcoming soon.

answered Mar 30, 2012 at 16:14

Mike Samuel

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