Disabling Syntax highlighting in annotated comments

[distantforest1]

Hi is there a way to disable the syntax highlighting in the annotated comments? Like in the following:

I'd like the comments to return to their normal colour.

They are incredibly distracting and increases the noise significantly while reading the code. I've been struggling with this for several months already, trying different themes to in an attempt counteract it but there are very few that can help with this. If there was a way to deal with this, it would be greatly appreciated.

[tomlau10]

AFAIK, LuaLS server is providing the semantic token types for tokens in comments by default.
And you can turn it off by setting the config "semantic.annotation": false in your global user settings.json
https://luals.github.io/wiki/settings/#semanticannotation

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However I tried this only turns off those coloring within @param, while @class and class names will still have color.😕
I then tried disabling the whole semantic tokenization by using "semantic.enable": false, and they are still have coloring.

By using the Developer: Inspect Editor Tokens and Scopes, seems the coloring is provided by editor's built-in textmate scopes rule by default.
i.e. at most you can will have the coloring identical to without enabling luals, other than that none is controlled by luals.

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To sum up:

• first try to disable semantic.annotation config to see if it suits you
• and then you can try to further disable semantic.enable config to see which one suit better
• finally you may also try to disable luals to see the coloring difference, then you will know which colorings are not controlled by luals side
  (thus those coloring are not the fault of luals 🙈 )

[distantforest1]

Thanks for the hints. I've managed to find out a (workaround) solution thanks to your help:

As you said it's not from Luals, but from some textmate settings.

You can use Developer: Inspect Editor Tokens and Scopes to find out the colour, or the scope to put in the settings.

To override these settings you can put this in your settings.json:

  "editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
    "textMateRules": [
      {
        "name": "support.class.lua",
        "scope": [
          "comment.line.double-dash.documentation.lua storage.type.annotation.lua",
          "comment.line.double-dash.documentation.lua support.class.lua",
          "comment.line.double-dash.documentation.lua support.type.lua",
          "comment.line.double-dash.documentation.lua entity.name.variable.lua",
          "comment.line.double-dash.documentation.lua keyword.control.lua",
          "comment.line.double-dash.documentation.lua keyword.operator",
        ],
        "settings": {
          "foreground": "#6A9955"
        }
      }
    ]
  },

Where foreground is the colour of your theme's comment colour. You can use Developer: Inspect Editor Tokens and Scopes to find out the colour here as well.

[CppCXY]

Actually, the TextMate for VSCode is maintained by LuaLS: https://github.com/LuaLS/lua.tmbundle

[tomlau10]

I personally like the coloring (or at least I don't found them distracting).
That's because you can also write comment within the annotation.
If the type annotation are not colored, then it may be difficult to distinguish them on first sight 🤔

[distantforest1]

I'd rather the code inform me of the structure rather than annotated comments personally. That being said I added some colours back in, but made it darker:

Minimal seems better for me.