From: https://libregit.org/Andre-LA/ta-nelua/issues/2
By: Andre-LA

in the following code:

local Rec = @record{}
function Rec:method(arg1: integer): number
   return (@number)(arg1)
end

"method" is highlighted as a type

• Highlight !
• Highlight self
• Highlight function calls
• Highlight standard libraries calls, just like textadept's lua lexer
• Highlight operators (not sure anymore if it's a good ideia adding this to a lexer)
• Improve lua embedding, lex:embed overwrites the previous lex:embed
• When highlighting types, highlight only the last identifier, like "x: Lib.x_type"
• Improve annotation highlighting, instead of using one flat color.

Reference

TextAdept at current state

Other editors

SublimeText 4

SublimeText 3

(Edubart's screenshots, some old)

Micro:

VS Code

Lite-xl

(also lite, but may be Lua syntax, idk)

(copy of https://libregit.org/Andre-LA/ta-nelua/issues/1)

Code between #( )#, #[ ]# and # is Lua code, so, it will be better if lua syntax highlighting is used instead.