diff --git a/rc/base/haskell.kak b/rc/base/haskell.kak
index 80b7e20d..1fec8da6 100644
--- a/rc/base/haskell.kak
+++ b/rc/base/haskell.kak
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ add-highlighter shared/haskell/string       region (?<!'\\)(?<!')"
 add-highlighter shared/haskell/macro        region ^\h*?\K#                        (?<!\\)\n       ''  fill meta
 add-highlighter shared/haskell/pragma       region \{-#                            '#-\}'          \{- fill meta
 add-highlighter shared/haskell/comment      region \{-                               -\}           \{- fill comment
-add-highlighter shared/haskell/line_comment region -- --(?:[^!#$%&*+./<>?@\\\^|~=]|$) $               ''  fill comment
+add-highlighter shared/haskell/line_comment region --(?:[^!#$%&*+./<>?@\\\^|~=]|$) $               ''  fill comment
 
 add-highlighter shared/haskell/code/ regex (?<!')\b0x+[A-Fa-f0-9]+ 0:value
 add-highlighter shared/haskell/code/ regex (?<!')\b\d+([.]\d+)? 0:value
diff --git a/rc/base/lua.kak b/rc/base/lua.kak
index b6a2c25d..6a20fc56 100644
--- a/rc/base/lua.kak
+++ b/rc/base/lua.kak
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ add-highlighter shared/lua regions
 add-highlighter shared/lua/code default-region group
 add-highlighter shared/lua/double_string region '"'   (?<!\\)(?:\\\\)*" '' fill string
 add-highlighter shared/lua/single_string region "'"   (?<!\\)(?:\\\\)*' '' fill string
-add-highlighter shared/lua/comment       region -- '--'  $                 '' fill comment
+add-highlighter shared/lua/comment       region '--'  $                 '' fill comment
 add-highlighter shared/lua/raw_string  region -match-capture '\[(=*)\['   '\](=*)\]'       '' fill string
-add-highlighter shared/lua/raw_comment region -match-capture -- '--\[(=*)\[' '\](=*)\]'       '' fill comment
+add-highlighter shared/lua/raw_comment region -match-capture '--\[(=*)\[' '\](=*)\]'       '' fill comment
 
 add-highlighter shared/lua/code/ regex \b(and|break|do|else|elseif|end|false|for|function|goto|if|in|local|nil|not|or|repeat|return|then|true|until|while)\b 0:keyword
 
diff --git a/src/highlighters.cc b/src/highlighters.cc
index 680ec094..ddd0d6c6 100644
--- a/src/highlighters.cc
+++ b/src/highlighters.cc
@@ -1860,7 +1860,8 @@ public:
 
         static const ParameterDesc param_desc{
             { { "match-capture", { false, "" } } },
-            ParameterDesc::Flags::SwitchesOnlyAtStart, 4
+            ParameterDesc::Flags::SwitchesOnlyAtStart | ParameterDesc::Flags::IgnoreUnknownSwitches,
+            4
         };
 
         ParametersParser parser{params, param_desc};
diff --git a/src/parameters_parser.cc b/src/parameters_parser.cc
index a4456db4..a14b0435 100644
--- a/src/parameters_parser.cc
+++ b/src/parameters_parser.cc
@@ -25,22 +25,33 @@ String generate_switches_doc(const SwitchMap& switches)
     return res;
 }
 
-ParametersParser::ParametersParser(ParameterList params,
-                                   const ParameterDesc& desc)
+ParametersParser::ParametersParser(ParameterList params, const ParameterDesc& desc)
     : m_params(params),
       m_desc(desc)
 {
+    const bool switches_only_at_start = desc.flags & ParameterDesc::Flags::SwitchesOnlyAtStart;
+    const bool ignore_unknown_switches = desc.flags & ParameterDesc::Flags::IgnoreUnknownSwitches;
     bool only_pos = desc.flags & ParameterDesc::Flags::SwitchesAsPositional;
+
     Vector<bool> switch_seen(desc.switches.size(), false);
     for (size_t i = 0; i < params.size(); ++i)
     {
-        if (not only_pos and params[i] == "--")
+        if (not only_pos and not ignore_unknown_switches and params[i] == "--")
             only_pos = true;
         else if (not only_pos and not params[i].empty() and params[i][0_byte] == '-')
         {
             auto it = m_desc.switches.find(params[i].substr(1_byte));
             if (it == m_desc.switches.end())
+            {
+                if (ignore_unknown_switches)
+                {
+                    m_positional_indices.push_back(i);
+                    if (switches_only_at_start)
+                        only_pos = true;
+                    continue;
+                }
                 throw unknown_option(params[i]);
+            }
 
             auto switch_index = it - m_desc.switches.begin();
             if (switch_seen[switch_index])
@@ -52,7 +63,7 @@ ParametersParser::ParametersParser(ParameterList params,
         }
         else // positional
         {
-            if (desc.flags & ParameterDesc::Flags::SwitchesOnlyAtStart)
+            if (switches_only_at_start)
                 only_pos = true;
             m_positional_indices.push_back(i);
         }
diff --git a/src/parameters_parser.hh b/src/parameters_parser.hh
index e30fbabf..01da6ade 100644
--- a/src/parameters_parser.hh
+++ b/src/parameters_parser.hh
@@ -52,8 +52,9 @@ struct ParameterDesc
     enum class Flags
     {
         None = 0,
-        SwitchesOnlyAtStart = 1,
-        SwitchesAsPositional = 2,
+        SwitchesOnlyAtStart   = 0b0001,
+        SwitchesAsPositional  = 0b0010,
+        IgnoreUnknownSwitches = 0b0100
     };
     friend constexpr bool with_bit_ops(Meta::Type<Flags>) { return true; }