Questions tagged [syntax-highlighting]
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Broken italics in code block
The answer here https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/472384/170373
contains this code block:
grep -vE '0.*1|1.*[02]|2.*[13]|3.*[24]|4.*[35]|5.*[46]|6.*[57]|7.*[68]|8.*[79]|9.*8'
In that particular answer,...
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Improve syntax detection based on shebang
On a few occasion, I've seen code blocks such as:
#! /bin/zsh -
echo foo/*
echo this is not part of a C comment.
Being highlighted as C code even though the Q&A had a zsh tag and the shebang ...
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Is there something wrong with tags determining the language for syntax highlighting?
Is it just me, or has the language detection from tags for syntax highlighting been broken lately? I seem to have noticed a couple of times that scripts containing /* were highlighted as if it that ...
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Suggestion to use 'bash' as syntax highlighting for text processing related tags
I recently came to know that we can use
<!-- language-all: bash -->
or
<!-- language: bash -->
for manually adding syntax highlighting. It is also mentioned in: https://unix....
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Shell syntax highlighting does silly things like consider rmdir a comment
On the main site, this
<!-- language: lang-shell -->
# do these steps on each distro
mv Documents Documents.old
ln -s /shared/your-user/Documents Documents
mv -i Documents.old/*...
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False bash syntax highlighting: '$#' should not get identified as comment start
Let's look at a simple code example written in Bash:
As you can see, the light grey comment highlighting in line 3 starts at the # symbol, although it's part of the reserved variable name $# and ...
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How to switch on syntax highlighting for python snippet?
I tried to highlight some code in this answer, by inserting an explicit
<!-- language-all: python -->
at the top of the file.
I also tried <!-- language: python --> just before the ...
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Why aren't some codeblocks highlighted?
More often, I see some codeblocks like this c block or this bash block, which just aren't highlighted.
Often simple constructs like for-loops etc are, indeed, highlighted. But it looks broken.
And ...
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Why prettify mistakes `/*` as comment for "shell script"
Specifically this question. Apparently it's interpreting /* as the beginning of a comment which it isn't in any shell I known of (only JS, Java and some C-like language to my limited knowledge do this)...
