Freemarker syntax highlighting issues with square brackets syntax

Ftl file (square syntax) highlighting seems to have two issues in the latest final, i.e.:

1. It needs user input to engage (except for interpolation tags, i.e. ${somevariable})
2. It is stopped by ${somevariable} tags that are NOT within brackets

Example

This is best exemplified by following beginning of an actual ftl file:
(1, 2 etc. with stars are my markings for referencing, and are NOT in actual FTL file)

*1*[#ftl attributes={"layout":"defaultLayout"} /]

[#if cmpsContainer??]
    [#if cmpsContainer.getComponent('protocols')??]
        [#assign protocols = cmpsContainer.getComponent('protocols') /]
    [/#if]
[/#if]
*2*
<script>head.load("${root}/lib/redbox.js");</script>
*3*[@alerts.success placeholder="${defaultPlaceholder}" class="fade alert-fixed"]${uitags.assignmentRemoved}*4*[/@alerts.success]

The following happens:

• When opening the file, the only things highlighted are the ${root} and ${uitags.assignmentRemoved} (considered "interpolation" in Freemarker syntax highlighting configuration)

• You need to write anything at 1 to engage highlighting other syntax, in which case the highlighting runs up until 2

• You then need to write anything at 3 to continue highlighting, in which case the hightlighting stops at 4, and you then need to write anything at 4 to make it continue

• Note that the highlighting does NOT stop at ${defaultPlaceholder}