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apemangr

[Help] Tree‑sitter not highlighting operators inside normal strings in Python/C?

Need Help

Hi all,

I’m trying to get Tree‑sitter in Neovim to highlight operators inside normal formatted strings like this:

    var = 5
    print("count: %.2f" % var)

But operators like % aren’t getting any special color.

My Treesitter setup:

require("nvim-treesitter.configs").setup({
ensure_installed = { "python", "c" },
highlight = {
enable = true,
additional_vim_regex_highlighting = false,
},
})

Posted Jun 23, 2025, 4:21 AM UTC

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