Conditional bracket highlighting in bash-like languages

[spillz]

I have a language where I have defined the following bracket types:

"brackets": [
    ["(", ")"],
    ["{", "}"],
    ["if", "endif"],
    ["while", "wend"],
    ["for", "next"]
],

The problem is that this is sort of a bash-like language where the if/endif, while/wend, and for/next keyword pairs are only valid as brackets at the start of a line (after an optional amount of whitespace) because in a line that begins with a command, those keywords could appear as command line args, variable names or user text in the command line arguments, throwing off the bracket matching. It would be helpful to have some more control here like being able to set the if/endif using a regex that checks it is the start of a line or specifying that the brackets are valid for only certain names in the language grammar. I don't think either feature exists currently.

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