Timeline for Goodbye, Prettify. Hello highlight.js! Swapping out our Syntax Highlighter
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| Jun 20, 2021 at 11:35 | history | edited | This_is_NOT_a_forum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
(While we are at it.) [<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/misdetect#Verb>]
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| Oct 28, 2020 at 2:54 | comment | added | Josh Goebel | There is a PR to fix this that will be merged soon and will be released when 10.4 is out. Markdown was also far too "greedy" and claiming anything that looked like [x][y] as a link. This has been resolved. | |
| Oct 17, 2020 at 18:19 | comment | added | Josh Goebel | Filed as an upstream issue: github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/issues/2767 | |
| Oct 17, 2020 at 18:15 | comment | added | Josh Goebel |
That said this specific case is definitely an issue with our XML grammar being too greedy. It seems all those < as HTML and starts crediting everything it sees as an HTML attribute... which makes no sense because this is so not XML in so so many different ways. So this specific auto-detect failure is something we could fix upstream.
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| Oct 17, 2020 at 18:13 | comment | added | Josh Goebel | > "When two tags have a highlighter it falls back to lang-default" This definitely sounds like poor behavior on SE part. I'll jump into that thread next but both tags can easily be input to the auto-detecting algorithm, ie SE could easily tell us "I KNOW this either is C or C++ code". And with a small amount of extra effort you could "weight" the highlighter such that "I'm confident, but not entirely sure this is C or C++ code". | |
| Oct 8, 2020 at 10:56 | comment | added | Marijn | There is also a feature request to supply all the tag-associated languages as hints to highlight.js instead of a fully 'blind' autodetection: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/354793/… | |
| Oct 8, 2020 at 10:42 | comment | added | rene | I didn't know either. I needed Martijn to explain how it worked, See my revisions here: meta.stackoverflow.com/a/401174/578411 | |
| Oct 8, 2020 at 10:35 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | @rene Interesting, I didn’t know they would cancel out, that’s definitely not great. | |
| Oct 8, 2020 at 10:09 | comment | added | rene | Both the C and C++ tag have a highlighter set (lang-c and lang-cpp). When two tags have a highlighter it falls back to lang-default. Add an explicit language hint to each code block. | |
| Oct 8, 2020 at 9:48 | history | answered | Konrad Rudolph | CC BY-SA 4.0 |