diff --git a/rc/filetype/lua.kak b/rc/filetype/lua.kak
index 9155c8a1..bfc7a35a 100644
--- a/rc/filetype/lua.kak
+++ b/rc/filetype/lua.kak
@@ -48,12 +48,11 @@ add-highlighter shared/lua/comment       region '--'  $                 fill com
 
 add-highlighter shared/lua/code/function_declaration regex \b(?:function\h+)(?:\w+\h*\.\h*)*([a-zA-Z_]\w*)\( 1:function
 add-highlighter shared/lua/code/function_call regex \b([a-zA-Z_]\w*)\h*(?=[\(\{]) 1:function
-add-highlighter shared/lua/code/keyword regex \b(and|break|do|else|elseif|end|for|function|goto|if|in|not|or|repeat|return|then|until|while)\b 0:keyword
+add-highlighter shared/lua/code/keyword regex \b(and|break|do|else|elseif|end|for|function|goto|if|in|local|not|or|repeat|return|then|until|while)\b 0:keyword
 add-highlighter shared/lua/code/value regex \b(false|nil|true|[0-9]+(:?\.[0-9])?(:?[eE]-?[0-9]+)?|0x[0-9a-fA-F])\b 0:value
 add-highlighter shared/lua/code/operator regex (\+|-|\*|/|%|\^|==?|~=|<=?|>=?|\.\.|\.\.\.|#) 0:operator
 add-highlighter shared/lua/code/builtin regex \b(_G|_ENV)\b 0:builtin
 add-highlighter shared/lua/code/module regex \b(_G|_ENV)\b 0:module
-add-highlighter shared/lua/code/attribute regex \b(local)\b 0:attribute
 
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