Syntax highlighting is buggy in class folders

[s6nke]

Describe the bug
When having code in a class folder (beginning with '@') the highlighting is inconsistent and all over the place for the main class declaration file. This reaches from just missing keyword highlighting (for, classdef, ...) to arbitrary words having multiple colors. This makes reading of documents very hard and efficient working nearly impossible.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create a class-folder (also nested in namespaces)
2. Create the classes main file, e.g. +mynamespace/@MyClass/MyClass.m
3. Create another method for the class and to arbitrary work on the class
4. open and edit documents. Sometime the behavior appears only after a loaded document is changed.
5. Visually inspect the document in VSCode.

Expected behavior
The same highlighting behavior between files in "normal" folders as in class folders.

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Useful Information

• MATLAB Version: R2025b, 1.3.13
• OS Version: Ubuntu 24.04, Arch
• VS Code Version: 1.130

[dklilley]

Thanks for reporting this!

This appears to be an issue with the semantic tokens feature. It appears to be trying to apply the semantic tokens from the standalone function file to the classdef file.

[dklilley]

@Gustaf-C , I wanted to check to see if this is something you would be interested in taking a look at?