diff --git a/spec/app/tokenized-buffer-spec.coffee b/spec/app/tokenized-buffer-spec.coffee
index 2ba958353..c19be4751 100644
--- a/spec/app/tokenized-buffer-spec.coffee
+++ b/spec/app/tokenized-buffer-spec.coffee
@@ -400,3 +400,22 @@ describe "TokenizedBuffer", ->
       expect(tokenizedBuffer.lineForScreenRow(1).text).toBe '  "b" => "c",'
       expect(tokenizedBuffer.lineForScreenRow(2).text).toBe '}'
       expect(tokenizedBuffer.lineForScreenRow(3).text).toBe ''
+
+  fdescribe "when an Objective-C source file is tokenized", ->
+    beforeEach ->
+      editSession =  fixturesProject.buildEditSessionForPath('function.mm', autoIndent: false)
+      buffer = editSession.buffer
+      tokenizedBuffer = editSession.displayBuffer.tokenizedBuffer
+      editSession.setVisible(true)
+      fullyTokenize(tokenizedBuffer)
+
+    afterEach ->
+      editSession.destroy()
+
+    it "correctly parses variable type when it is a built-in Cocoa class", ->
+      commentLine = tokenizedBuffer.lineForScreenRow(1)
+      expect(commentLine.text).toBe 'NSString *a = @"a\\nb";'
+      { tokens } = commentLine
+
+      expect(tokens[0].value).toBe "NSString"
+      expect(tokens[0].scopes).toEqual ["source.objc++", "meta.function.c", "meta.block.c", "support.class.cocoa"]
diff --git a/spec/fixtures/function.mm b/spec/fixtures/function.mm
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..98539b972
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/fixtures/function.mm
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+NSString *test() {
+NSString *a = @"a\nb";
+return a;
+}