From a390a6f356a97428d00935e5e8e0a01a23f5e746 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yerlan <yerlaser@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 20:51:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Highlight extra chars in literal

This commit adds highlighting characters other than the first with red color helping to get immediate feedback of the syntax error.
This helps those who come from languagles like JS where single quotes also denote multi-character strings.
---
 rc/filetype/kotlin.kak | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/rc/filetype/kotlin.kak b/rc/filetype/kotlin.kak
index 76d3b7dd..4d575167 100644
--- a/rc/filetype/kotlin.kak
+++ b/rc/filetype/kotlin.kak
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ provide-module kotlin %§
 add-highlighter shared/kotlin regions
 add-highlighter shared/kotlin/code default-region group
 add-highlighter shared/kotlin/string region %{(?<!')"} %{(?<!\\)(\\\\)*"} group
-add-highlighter shared/kotlin/character region %{'} %{(?<!\\)'} fill value
+add-highlighter shared/kotlin/character region %{'} %{(?<!\\)'} group
 add-highlighter shared/kotlin/comment region /\* \*/ fill comment
 add-highlighter shared/kotlin/inline_documentation region /// $ fill documentation
 add-highlighter shared/kotlin/line_comment region // $ fill comment
@@ -69,6 +69,10 @@ add-highlighter shared/kotlin/code/fields      regex \.([A-Za-z_][\w]*)\s*?\. 1:
 add-highlighter shared/kotlin/string/ fill string
 add-highlighter shared/kotlin/string/ regex \$\{.*?\} 0:value
 
+# Character
+add-highlighter shared/kotlin/character/ fill value
+add-highlighter shared/kotlin/character/ regex ('.{1})(.+)(') 2:red
+
 # As at 15 March 2021, method see: https://regex101.com/r/Mhy4HG/1
 add-highlighter shared/kotlin/code/methods     regex ::([A-Za-z_][\w]*)|\.([A-Za-z_][\w]*)\s*?[\(\{]|\.([A-Za-z_][\w]*)[\s\)\}>](?=[^\(\{]) 1:function 2:function 3:function