String on multiple lines

Hi, I was messing around when I discovered that writing a string with a new line would cause the syntax highlighting to go away like so (copy into project to see highlighting):

str = " this part is not syntax highlighted
this part is not syntax highlighted
this part is not syntax highlighted"

Despite this, testing str in the console resulted in:

> str
   " this part is not syntax highlighted
   this part is not syntax highlighted
   this part is not syntax highlighted"

EDIT: Another problem (copy + paste into code editor):

thisThing = "some really confusing syntax highlighting right //here" this bit is part of the comment
  this is part of the string still lol //but this isn't.
  so is this. All syntax highlighting for function s and the like is wrong"