boatbomber/highlighter

RichText highlighting Lua code with a pure Lua lexer

Hi there, I'm Zack (aka boatbomber) 👋

Creator of Lua Learning • Founder of @TorpedoSoftware • 5x SWE Intern @Roblox • 4x Bloxy Nominee & 3x Bloxy Winner • 2x RDC Gamejam Winner

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highlighter's Issues

Lexer matches unicode, but doesn't catch it.

Title says it all, I am using src/lexer/init.lua. Here's a quick example:

⭮⽥⻶ⓞ⠏Ⱈ⵼⇠⺀❜⍨ↇ⡧⚏ⷔ⸂␳⋡⒀⻒⪻ⅆ⿜⌰⤟ⵣ⏗⸂⚿▚⪪⿐⽻⥝⁹⚎Ⓥ◥◶℀₏Ⅻ will get matched, but not catched properly.

print("⭮⽥⻶ⓞ⠏Ⱈ⵼⇠⺀❜⍨ↇ⡧⚏ⷔ⸂␳⋡⒀⻒⪻ⅆ⿜⌰⤟ⵣ⏗⸂⚿▚⪪⿐⽻⥝⁹⚎Ⓥ◥◶℀₏Ⅻ")

Will catch: "⭮⽥⻶ⓞ⠏Ⱈ⵼⇠⺀❜⍨ↇ⡧⚏ⷔ⸂␳⋡⒀⻒⪻ⅆ⿜⌰⤟ⵣ⏗⸂⚿▚⪪⿐⽻⥝⁹⚎Ⓥ◥◶℀₏Ⅻ")

It returns the unicode with the suffix and ) but it's not suppose to.

Here's how it looks like:

Here is how it should look like:

Support granular colors like bool, self, etc to match Roblox Studio

Doesn't support TextWrapped enabled textbox

It does not support Textboxes with TextWrapped enabled. it just goes past and makes the text a dark color.

Forgot comma

you forgot to put a comma in language.lua on line 26

Selection Delete in textbox make highlight shaking and out of place

version : 0.8.2

2023-10-04.16-00-02.mp4

[BUG] Weird Shadow On Multi-Line TextBox's

A strange shadow appears and grows noticeably larger after typing some code, then deleting a few lines below it.

TextBox inside of ScrollingFrame.

2023-04-22.22-28-06.mp4

I think it doesn't like strings