Script tag fails to highlight as JS if contents start with $

[francislavoie]

For example, the below fails to highlight correctly (detected as the wrong language?):

A workaround involves prefixing $ with window. which avoids $ at the start of the line which seems to disambiguate it:

Using <script type="text/javascript"> doesn't help either, FWIW.

Works fine with GitHub's syntax highlighter:

<script>
$('foo');
// This should be a comment
</script>

For context: we sprinkle a bit of <script> with some jQuery in our markdown docs to make some surgical adjustments to the markdown output, including linkifying some text in <code> blocks and such.

[francislavoie]

TIL of the Developer: Inspect Editor Tokens and Scopes tool. Apparently it's being parsed as latex instead of javascript after the $ appears