From d15e399fce62314a3a051f1c7285eade9ea314d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Keith Hall <keith-hall@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2025 21:49:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [CSV] don't apply string highlighting by default

---
 CHANGELOG.md                                           |  1 +
 assets/syntaxes/02_Extra/CSV/CSV.sublime-syntax        |  2 +-
 tests/syntax-tests/highlighted/CSV/comma_in_quotes.csv | 10 +++++-----
 tests/syntax-tests/highlighted/CSV/simple.tsv          |  2 +-
 4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ae6cac4d..63d70e2e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 ## Syntaxes
 
 - Change the URL of Zig submodule from GitHub to Codeberg, see #3519 (@sorairolake)
+- Don't color strings inside CSV files, to make it easier to tell which column they belong to, see #3521 (@keith-hall)
 
 ## Themes
 
diff --git a/assets/syntaxes/02_Extra/CSV/CSV.sublime-syntax b/assets/syntaxes/02_Extra/CSV/CSV.sublime-syntax
index 8ce83acb..aad614a6 100644
--- a/assets/syntaxes/02_Extra/CSV/CSV.sublime-syntax
+++ b/assets/syntaxes/02_Extra/CSV/CSV.sublime-syntax
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ contexts:
 
   double_quoted_string:
     - meta_include_prototype: false
-    - meta_scope: string.quoted.double.csv
+    - meta_scope: meta.string.quoted.double.csv
     - match: '""'
       scope: constant.character.escape.csv
     - match: '"'
diff --git a/tests/syntax-tests/highlighted/CSV/comma_in_quotes.csv b/tests/syntax-tests/highlighted/CSV/comma_in_quotes.csv
index 8f4004a0..5635cd8e 100644
--- a/tests/syntax-tests/highlighted/CSV/comma_in_quotes.csv
+++ b/tests/syntax-tests/highlighted/CSV/comma_in_quotes.csv
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 first,last,address,city,zip
-John,Doe,120 any st.,"Anytown, WW",08123
+John,Doe,120 any st.,"Anytown, WW",08123
 a,b
-1,"ha 
-""ha"" 
-ha",120 any st.,"Anytown, WW",08123
-3,4,120 any st.,"Anytown, WW",08123
+1,"ha 
+""ha"" 
+ha",120 any st.,"Anytown, WW",08123
+3,4,120 any st.,"Anytown, WW",08123
diff --git a/tests/syntax-tests/highlighted/CSV/simple.tsv b/tests/syntax-tests/highlighted/CSV/simple.tsv
index 7dd1a9de..204c7523 100644
--- a/tests/syntax-tests/highlighted/CSV/simple.tsv
+++ b/tests/syntax-tests/highlighted/CSV/simple.tsv
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 foo	bar	baz|;,	test	hello world	tsv
 1,2	1,7	2,7	a b c	"hello	again"	tsv
-";|,"	;|,	baz	test	"hello world"	tsv
+";|,"	;|,	baz	test	"hello world"	tsv