Timeline for Goodbye, Prettify. Hello highlight.js! Swapping out our Syntax Highlighter
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| Nov 2, 2020 at 23:07 | history | edited | William Robertson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 10, 2020 at 9:16 | comment | added | William Robertson | Since PL/SQL is a wrapper for SQL (among other things) perhaps there is a way to include a common SQL grammar and extend it with begin/end/loop etc for PL/SQL. But then I've never written a JavaScript syntax parser so I have no idea what I'm talking about (though I did extend my fork of code-prettify to include PL/SQL. | |
| Oct 10, 2020 at 9:15 | comment | added | William Robertson |
I'm guessing the "MySQL mixed" is why only the first declaration after a declare keyword is highlighted. In PL/SQL declare marks the start of a section containing multiple items and ending with begin.
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| Oct 7, 2020 at 15:41 | comment | added | Josh Goebel | I'm making a small change to SQL that will always match strings (even if outside an apparent SQL statement) that will prevent examples like those above from being totally broken. github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/pull/2740 | |
| Oct 7, 2020 at 15:13 | comment | added | Josh Goebel | We support PL/SQL via PL/pgSQL... if StackOverflow wished to provide that variant, they could. "SQL" is intended to be very basic (although sadly it's currently got MySQL mixed in with it). Really the SQL variants are so different that to get the best results you really need to use one specific to the server variant you're using - which is why they should all be broken out into separate grammars. There are also size concerns (which might be why Stack Overflow just doesn't want to add everything in the kitchen sink)... I'm definitely open to making our "simple" SQL support better. | |
| Oct 5, 2020 at 9:01 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | highlight.js doesn’t support PL/SQL, and Stack Overflow in particular only supports SQL, which is a shame, since highlight.js has a separate definition for pgSQL (which includes PL/pgSQL!) that’s of vastly superior quality to the SQL definition. | |
| Oct 4, 2020 at 19:24 | history | edited | William Robertson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added link to related issue
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| Oct 4, 2020 at 19:15 | history | answered | William Robertson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |