diff --git a/rc/filetype/elm.kak b/rc/filetype/elm.kak
index 9f44c227..330f3b75 100644
--- a/rc/filetype/elm.kak
+++ b/rc/filetype/elm.kak
@@ -46,9 +46,10 @@ add-highlighter shared/elm/code/ regex \b([A-Z]+[^\s]*)\b
 add-highlighter shared/elm/code/ regex \b([a-z]+[^\s]*)\b                                                  0:variable
 add-highlighter shared/elm/code/ regex \b(^[a-z]+[^\s]*)\b                                                 0:function
 add-highlighter shared/elm/code/ regex "-?\b[0-9]*\.?[0-9]+"                                               0:value
-add-highlighter shared/elm/code/ regex \B(\+|\+\+|\*|/|//|-|=|==|&&|\|\||<\||\|>)\B                        0:operator
+add-highlighter shared/elm/code/ regex \B[+-<>!@#$%^&*=:/\\|]+\B                                           0:operator
 add-highlighter shared/elm/code/ regex \b(import|exposing|as|module|where)\b                               0:meta
-add-highlighter shared/elm/code/ regex (\b(type|alias|if|then|else|case|of|let|in|infix|_)\b)|(\B(->|:)\B) 0:keyword
+add-highlighter shared/elm/code/ regex \b(type|alias|if|then|else|case|of|let|in|infix|_)\b)               0:keyword
+add-highlighter shared/elm/code/ regex (?<![+-<>!@#$%^&*=:/\\|])(->|:|=|\|)(?![+-<>!@#$%^&*=:/\\|])        0:keyword
 
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