diff --git a/rc/filetype/julia.kak b/rc/filetype/julia.kak
index 495a4ea7c..2dd86334d 100644
--- a/rc/filetype/julia.kak
+++ b/rc/filetype/julia.kak
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ provide-module julia %{
 add-highlighter shared/julia regions
 add-highlighter shared/julia/code default-region group
 add-highlighter shared/julia/string  region '"' (?<!\\)(\\\\)*"         fill string
-add-highlighter shared/julia/comment region '#' '$'                     fill comment
+add-highlighter shared/julia/comment region -recurse '#=' '#=' '=#'     fill comment
+add-highlighter shared/julia/line_comment region '#' '$'                fill comment
 
 # taken from https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/contrib/julia-mode.el
 add-highlighter shared/julia/code/ regex %{\b(true|false|C_NULL|Inf|NaN|Inf32|NaN32|nothing|\b-?\d+[fdiu]?)\b} 0:value