Having trouble highlighting strings inside a nested region

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I’m attempting to create a syntax highlighter for twig templates, based on the highlighter for django templates in kakoune-extra. The highlighter splits itself into three groups, code, scope and expansion. The first calls out to the html highlighter. The other two handle the two types of tags that are available in twig – one for logic and one for output.

add-highlighter shared/twig/code default-region ref html
add-highlighter shared/twig/scope region '\{%' '%\}' group
add-highlighter shared/twig/expansion region '\{\{' '\}\}' group
add-highlighter shared/twig/comment region '\{#' '#\}' fill comment

I’ve copied the string regions from the php highlighter that comes with kak, and scoped it to the scope and expansion regions, but nothing is being matched. I can’t figure out why.

add-highlighter shared/twig/expansion/double_string region '"' (?<!\\)(\\\\)*" fill string
add-highlighter shared/twig/scope/single_string region "'" (?<!\\)(\\\\)*' fill string
add-highlighter shared/twig/expansion/single_string region "'" (?<!\\)(\\\\)*' fill string

I’ve tried wrapping the closing regex in the opposing quotation marks, as well as removing the backslash exceptions, but to no avail.

If I do not add the highlighters to subregions of the scope and expansion it conflicts with the highlighting of html and results in pathological highlights, and vice versa.

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I’ve cleaned the highlighting plugin up into it’s own file that could be turned into a plugin, but I’d like help getting the actual highlighting a little better. Here’s a gist with the file and also an example twig file that you can run the highlighting against to see if modifications are working.