Comment color resets for long comment lines

[mcandre]

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Description

The color for syntax highlighting comments, halts in the middle of a long comment line and resets to a different color.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Write a YAML file with long lines (~2048 ASCII characters).
2. Comment the line.

Expected behavior:

The entire line is rendered with the user's preferred comment color.

Actual behavior:

A significant remainder of the line is highlighted with a different color.

Reproduces how often:

Always

Versions

$ apm --version
apm  2.1.7
npm  6.2.0
node 8.9.3 x64
atom 1.38.2
python 2.7.15
git 2.18.0

$ atom --version
Atom    : 1.38.2
Electron: 2.0.18
Chrome  : 61.0.3163.100
Node    : 8.9.3

[calebmeyer]

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