ENHANCEMENT - Option to toggle off certain highlighting in comments?

[GBR6000]

I'm using the extension to highlight citation commands in latex. But these commands don't need to be highlighted if inside a comment. This is doable using regex but it would be nice if there was a option for it.

[jgclark]

I think you're suggesting being able to set this per highlight, right?
Either way, it's challenging, as it would then need to know the syntax for all single- and multi-line comments in different file types.
Giving some regex examples for different languages feels like a much easier option.
Or am I missing something?

[GBR6000]

Yes I was thinking per highlight.
To be honest I don't really know about the back end of the extension but generally the textmate scope for a comment starts with "comment.line." or "comment.block.". But if this isn't accessible then I imagine it would be far more difficult that it is worth to implement.

Edit: Python block comments start with "string.quoted.docstring."