okay, so, i have been using this syntax highlighter by NiceBuild1
but, it has some significant flaws
to begin with, the way how it gets the colors is completely inaccurate so i made significant changes to that
next to that, it did not support string interpolation local a = 5; print(`number is {a}`) so i had to implement that myself
next, i had to tackle gpt-generated code since that constantly contained a character that shifted the highlighted text downwards by 1, so i fixed that as well
concatenation and commas were broken from the start, and i have no idea how to fix it
code used:
local broken = "hello".."world"
local normal = "hello" .. "world"
local broken = "hello", "world"
local normal = "hello" , "world"
then we have THIS kind of a mess (html entities)
local a = "<"
local b = "<"
having that automatically completes it to < or >, or any kind of html entity you can use
so if anyone can help me fix this, thank you.
Modified highlighter module
Colors module
local Colors = {
Text = Color3.fromRGB(204, 204, 204),
Background = Color3.fromRGB(37, 37, 37),
Selection = Color3.fromRGB(255, 255, 255),
SelectionBackground = Color3.fromRGB(11, 90, 175),
Operator = Color3.fromRGB(204, 204, 204),
Number = Color3.fromRGB(255, 198, 0),
String = Color3.fromRGB(173, 241, 149),
Comment = Color3.fromRGB(102, 102, 102),
Keyword = Color3.fromRGB(248, 109, 124),
Error = Color3.fromRGB(255, 0, 0),
Warning = Color3.fromRGB(255, 115, 21),
Information = Color3.fromRGB(79, 79, 79),
Hint = Color3.fromRGB(0, 139, 219),
FindSelectionBackground = Color3.fromRGB(141, 118, 0),
MatchingWordBackground = Color3.fromRGB(85, 85, 85),
BuiltInFunction = Color3.fromRGB(132, 214, 247),
Whitespace = Color3.fromRGB(85, 85, 85),
CurrentLineHighlight = Color3.fromRGB(45, 50, 65),
DebuggerCurrentLine = Color3.fromRGB(42, 60, 76),
DebuggerErrorLine = Color3.fromRGB(76, 42, 42),
LocalMethod = Color3.fromRGB(253, 251, 175),
LocalProperty = Color3.fromRGB(97, 161, 241),
Nil = Color3.fromRGB(255, 198, 0),
Bool = Color3.fromRGB(255, 198, 0),
FunctionKeyword = Color3.fromRGB(248, 109, 124),
LocalKeyword = Color3.fromRGB(248, 109, 124),
SelfKeyword = Color3.fromRGB(248, 109, 124),
LuauKeyword = Color3.fromRGB(248, 109, 124),
FunctionName = Color3.fromRGB(253, 251, 172),
TODO = Color3.fromRGB(102, 102, 102),
ScriptRuler = Color3.fromRGB(102, 102, 102),
ScriptBracket = Color3.fromRGB(204, 204, 204),
Type = Color3.fromRGB(0, 255, 255),
DocumentationCodeBlockBackground = Color3.fromRGB(66, 66, 66),
MenuPrimaryText = Color3.fromRGB(255, 255, 255),
MenuSecondaryText = Color3.fromRGB(102, 102, 102),
MenuSelectedText = Color3.fromRGB(255, 255, 255),
MenuItemBackground = Color3.fromRGB(46, 46, 46),
SelectedMenuItemBackground = Color3.fromRGB(38, 90, 169),
ScriptEditorScrollbarBackground = Color3.fromRGB(46, 46, 46),
ScriptEditorScrollbarHandle = Color3.fromRGB(179, 179, 179),
IndentationRuler = Color3.fromRGB(102, 102, 102)
}
return Colors
--!native
--!optimize 2
local Colors = require(script.Colors)
local highlighter = {}
local keywords = {
lua = {"and","break","or","else","elseif","if","then","until","repeat","while","do","for","in","end","local","return","function","export", "not"},
rbx = {"game","workspace","script","math","string","table","task","wait","select","next","Enum","error","warn","tick","assert","shared","loadstring","tonumber","tostring","type","typeof","unpack","print","Instance","CFrame","Vector3","Vector2","Color3","UDim","UDim2","Ray","BrickColor","OverlapParams","RaycastParams","Axes","Random","Region3","Rect","TweenInfo","collectgarbage","utf8","pcall","xpcall","_G","setmetatable","getmetatable","os","pairs","ipairs"},
operators = {"#","+","-","*","%","/","^","=","~","=","<",">",",",".","(",")","{","}","[","]",";",":"}
}
local function createKeywordSet(keywords)
local set = {}
for _, k in ipairs(keywords) do set[k] = true end
return set
end
local luaSet = createKeywordSet(keywords.lua)
local rbxSet = createKeywordSet(keywords.rbx)
local operatorsSet = createKeywordSet(keywords.operators)
local function getHighlight(tokens, index)
local token = tokens[index]
if token == "true" or token == "false" then return Colors.Bool
elseif tonumber(token) then return Colors.Number
elseif token == "nil" then return Colors.Nil
elseif token:sub(1,2) == "--" then return Colors.Comment
elseif operatorsSet[token] then return Colors.Operator
elseif luaSet[token] then return Colors.LuauKeyword
elseif rbxSet[token] then return Colors.BuiltInFunction
elseif token:sub(1,1) == "\"" or token:sub(1,1) == "\'" or token:sub(1,1) == "`" then return Colors.String
end
if tokens[index + 1] == "(" then
if tokens[index - 1] == ":" then return Colors.FunctionName end
return Colors.FunctionName
end
if tokens[index - 1] == "." then
if tokens[index - 2] == "Enum" then return Colors.Keyword end
return Colors.LocalProperty
end
end
local function tokenizeInterpolation(str)
local tokens, current, i = {}, "", 1
while i <= #str do
local c = str:sub(i,i)
if c:match("[%w_]") then
current = current .. c
elseif operatorsSet[c] or c == "{" or c == "}" then
if #current > 0 then table.insert(tokens, current) current = "" end
table.insert(tokens, c)
else
if #current > 0 then table.insert(tokens, current) current = "" end
table.insert(tokens, c)
end
i += 1
end
if #current > 0 then table.insert(tokens, current) end
return tokens
end
function highlighter.run(source)
local tokens, currentToken = {}, ""
local inString, inComment, commentPersist = false, false, false
local i = 1
while i <= #source do
local c = source:sub(i,i)
if inComment then
currentToken = currentToken .. c
if (not commentPersist and c == "\n") or (commentPersist and source:sub(i-1,i) == "]]") then
table.insert(tokens, currentToken)
currentToken = ""
inComment = false
commentPersist = false
end
i += 1
elseif inString then
currentToken = currentToken .. c
if c == inString and source:sub(i-1,i-1) ~= "\\" then
table.insert(tokens, currentToken)
currentToken = ""
inString = false
i += 1
elseif c == "{" and inString == "`" then
local preString = currentToken:sub(1,-2)
if #preString > 0 then table.insert(tokens, preString) end
table.insert(tokens, "{")
currentToken = ""
local braceLevel = 1
local innerContent = ""
i += 1
while i <= #source and braceLevel > 0 do
local innerChar = source:sub(i,i)
if innerChar == "{" then
braceLevel += 1
elseif innerChar == "}" then
braceLevel -= 1
end
if braceLevel > 0 then innerContent = innerContent .. innerChar end
i += 1
end
local innerTokens = tokenizeInterpolation(innerContent)
for _, t in ipairs(innerTokens) do table.insert(tokens, t) end
table.insert(tokens, "}")
else
i += 1
end
else
if source:sub(i,i+1) == "--" then
if #currentToken > 0 then table.insert(tokens, currentToken) currentToken = "" end
inComment = true
commentPersist = source:sub(i+2,i+3) == "[["
currentToken = "--"
i += 2
elseif c == "\"" or c == "\'" or c == "`" then
if #currentToken > 0 then table.insert(tokens, currentToken) currentToken = "" end
inString = c
currentToken = c
i += 1
elseif operatorsSet[c] then
if #currentToken > 0 then table.insert(tokens, currentToken) currentToken = "" end
table.insert(tokens, c)
i += 1
elseif c:match("[%w_]") then
currentToken = currentToken .. c
i += 1
else
if #currentToken > 0 then table.insert(tokens, currentToken) currentToken = "" end
table.insert(tokens, c)
i += 1
end
end
end
if #currentToken > 0 then table.insert(tokens, currentToken) end
local highlighted = {}
local inBacktick = false
for i, token in ipairs(tokens) do
local color
if token:sub(1,1) == "`" then
inBacktick = not inBacktick
color = Colors.String
elseif (token == "{" or token == "}") and inBacktick then
color = Colors.String
else
color = getHighlight(tokens,i)
end
if not color then
color = Colors.Text
end
table.insert(highlighted,
string.format("<font color=\"#%s\">%s</font>",
color:ToHex(),
token:gsub("<","<"):gsub(">",">"):gsub("\r", "")))
end
return table.concat(highlighted)
end
return highlighter