@jpoelen Could you have a look at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=394184 ? It seems we have a regression?

There is indeed a problem with Kate, but it works with KSyntaxHighlighting. I will look in what part of doxygenlua.xml the problem is.

@jpoelen And why is it a problem with Kate? This means the C++ implementation of the highlighting rules is different in KSyntaxHighlighting and KTextEditor? If so, this would be an important catch. Can you elaborate why this is going wrong?

@vkrause see above.

@dhaumann The difference is in the dynamic attribute of a context. Kate propagates the captures only if the value is true whereas SyntaxHighlighting never looks at that value and only uses the dynamic attribute of the rules.

Personally, I find that having this attribute in contexts unnecessarily complicates the writing of rules. Same for fallthrough which is redundant to fallthroughContext.

Doxygenlua.xml fixed in D12860

@vkrause @cullmann Could you please comment on the above? Should we change KTextEditor such that dynamic is automatically derived based on whether there is a dynamic rule? Indeed, I agree with @jpoelen that this is redundant.

That's probably due to me misunderstanding the intended/existing behavior when implementing this, not an intentional decision in KSyntaxHighlighting. Removing redundancy sounds like a good idea though.