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11 questions linked to/from Julia syntax highlighting
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Goodbye, Prettify. Hello highlight.js! Swapping out our Syntax Highlighter
Update 2020-09-24
This is now live network-wide.
Update
This is now live on Meta Stack Exchange and Meta Stack Overflow. Any bugs and feedback can be posted here as an answer.
I’m Ben and I’m a dev ...
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What is syntax highlighting and how does it work?
I noticed that sometimes my code gets highlighted in different colors when rendered.
What is syntax highlighting?
How does it work?
Why isn't my code being highlighted correctly?
How do I report a ...
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Stop guessing/auto-detecting a language when you KNOW it will be incorrect
The problem: SE asks Highlight.js to autodetect the language when it knows there isn’t any optimal/correct choice for us to make - resulting in very poor outcomes.
Disclaimer: I say this as the ...
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What is the better highlighting language for HTTP Apache conf?
I'm looking for the best way to highlight Apache HTTP configuration :
Here an example with lang-xml, which really does not satisfy me:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName myapp-homintranet.myorg....
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Can Stack Overflow please upgrade to a version of highlight.js that supports PowerShell syntax highlighting?
This question is not a duplicate of:
Enable a "lang-powershell" option for Prettify on Stack Overflow
Please add support for PowerShell syntax highlighting
They are from a time when Stack ...
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Please deploy Fortran syntax highlighting
Fortran is supported by highlight.js. There are several Fortran questions at Stack overflow every day.
Please enable Fortran syntax highlighting.
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Syntax highlighting for Vimscript
A moderator on Vi & Vim SE recently announced syntax highlighting for lang-vimscript (seems to be synonymous to lang-vim) to be working: It looks like lang-vimscript is supported for code ...
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Java properties file syntax highlighting
Many Java-related questions have code blocks in Java properties file format. Right now, in order to ensure they're not improperly highlighted as Java code, the plain text lang-none language code can ...
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Support Prolog in syntax highlighting
As listed here, Prolog is not currently supported by Stack Exchange but it is supported by the underlying library highlight.js.
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Groovy syntax highlighting
According to the list of supported languages for syntax highlighting, Groovy has been missing for many years, despite the fact that highlight.js supports Groovy and Groovy is not a particularly exotic ...
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Add syntax highlighting support for Solidity
Recently, I have been active a lot on the Ethereum site. It got a recent design overhaul which shows that some progression is happening. Unfortunately, one of the main issues is that the Solidity code ...
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