IDE Lua Linting: Escape sequence \z not recognized

[FeedTheCat]

Lua 5.2 introduced the \z character, an elegant way of breaking up strings into multiple lines.

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Admittedly, this is a nitpick But if it's an easy fix, like updating the linter version, it would be really nice to have.

[Meo-Ada Mespotine]

Oh, didn't know about that one. Will save me tons of ]] and [[ characters.

So +1 on that.

[Justin]

Adding support for \z followed by a single newline, but due to some complexities in the syntax highlighting code, in some multi-line instances it may not update the other lines immediately (when changing a blank line into a non-blank line within a string that uses \z to ignore the whitespace blah blah blah)

[FeedTheCat]

Originally Posted by Justin

Adding support for \z followed by a single newline, but due to some complexities in the syntax highlighting code, in some multi-line instances it may not update the other lines immediately (when changing a blank line into a non-blank line within a string that uses \z to ignore the whitespace blah blah blah)

Nice! That sounds a bit more complicated than a simple Linter version upgrade, hehe. Thanks Justin!