Commit messages that contain parentheses get strange highlighting

[TamaMcGlinn]

We've both known about this issue a long time, but I always thought it was unavoidable with the way vim's highlighting works. Turns out that's not the case! Have a look at this fugitive issue, in which various workarounds are implemented by adding special characters which are then hidden in the buffer. Hopefully we can copy the approach to work for vim-flog.

[rbong]

I support this idea, but I also gave it a shot myself when I first wrote Flog and abandoned it because of added complexity and not-very-promising early performance tests and settled on something very simple. You could probably even resolve parentheses issues via more robust regex. Like you said I knew about this issue, but didn't give it too much attention.

I might give it a shot again myself, but I'm interested in experimenting with some potential neovim-only highlighting features, so I'm more likely to focus on that. I only ask that if you work on this issue, please make it optional for now. I am not the biggest fan of hidden characters in VIM.

[rbong]

Duplicate of #66 , and I already added more details there