Add-highlighter regex: getting the middle bit `${args.drop(1).joinToString(" ")}`

[duncan]

Hey @yerlaser and wider community, I’m having trouble getting the middle bit ${args.drop(1).joinToString(" ")} highlighted for kotlin.kak.

using add-highlighter regex

yet on the next line it picks it up

and you can see by doing

you can get it at each correct point

Source code is from here: https://bitbucket.org/KJ_Duncan/notes.kt/src/master/Notes.kt#lines-149

Any ideas guys on how to implement this correctly? Bye

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Tip:
before each/every copy and paste do : auto-pairs-disable
then to insert from normal mode do \i
now paste from clipboard which is not interpreted by Alex’s auto-pairs or kakoune.

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@prion

Looks like it’s interpreting … as two different strings.

Perfect Prefect Prion.
grade: A+

grade: A+

grade A+:

The triple P threat. Thanks buddy. Bye

[prion]

Looks like it’s interpreting
"$date @ time\n\t${args.drop(1).joinToString("
and
")}\n$NOTES_LINE\n"
as two different strings. I suspect -recurse doesn’t work with quotes since they aren’t balanced like {}.

vim can highlight this properly, but I find vimscript ftp files unreadable so who knows how they do it. Their solution (at least for ruby) somehow applies the default file highlighter inside the interpolation but I can’t think of a way to do that without dege cases. You could try just making \$\{[^\n]*\} a region that applies the kotlin highlighting over-top the string one and allow the highlighting to break in some very rare circumstances.