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"\w!\w" should treat the bang as part of the atom

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
elixir, vim
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Reproduce the highlighting with the shown Elixir examples in Vim, then inspect the Elixir syntax rules that classify the bang in hello!world and start_supervised!. Done means the bang is highlighted as part of the atom rather than as an elixirOperator, without changing unrelated highlighting.

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Description

bug syntax
iex(4)> hello!world
error: undefined function hello!/1 (there is no such import)
└─ iex:4

** (CompileError) cannot compile code (errors have been logged)

Practical example:

registry = start_supervised!(KV.Registry)

Currently maps to 'elixirOperator'

Dominant language
Ruby
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