How to Stop Literal String Highlight in Notepad++

[Arrowmaster]

Originally Posted by Xinhuan

both of your examples here highlight as expected by Lua parsing rules:

str = [[
--]]
code here
]]

--[=[
code
--[==[
--]=]
code
--]==]

The underlined parts above are what is in "green comment colouring" in Notepad++.

Yes I think that last one might have been parsed correctly in SciTE but what about when you change the first line to "---[=[", thats when all hell broke loose.

The XML files in FrameXML also seemed to always break SciTE's lexer and resulted in the first half of the file not being highlighted.