Questions tagged [syntax-highlighting]
For questions about the syntax highlighting performed inside code blocks on Stack Exchange sites.
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Syntax Highlighter and TypeScript/JavaScript issue [duplicate]
I noticed that syntax highlighter on StackOverflow (noticed exact same issue on ChatGPT as well) has problem with handling snake case.
It colors just the first segment of identifier and leaves rest ...
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Upgrade highlight.js library, due bad assembly code highlighting
When I edited a SO post, I noticed an error in highlighting assembly code sample.
Not only formatting is not applied when using assembly nor x84asm language identifiers, but it looks bad even if using ...
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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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Syntax highlighting of Makefiles
The syntax highlighting is bugged for Makefiles.
As per https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/356459/1288919 I used:
```lang-makefile
Current output for: https://stackoverflow.com/a/77223358/22510042
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Support 'text' as an alias for 'none' in syntax highlighting
For years, it has driven me nuts, having to use ```text to deactivate syntax highlighting on most markdown-enabled platforms like GitHub, but ```none or ```lang-text specifically on Stack Overflow. ...
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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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Funny colouring of Hexdump
I recently posted this question on apple.stackexchange which contains a hex dump, like this:
00000210: 616e 7369 6f6e 0a20 2020 2020 2020 5f08 ansion. _.
Different to here (on Meta ...
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Can you please add Pine to the list of "Language codes currently available on Stack Exchange"?
As a follow-up to this question on MSE and this one on MSO, I would like to know if it is possible to add Pine to the list of "Language codes currently available on Stack Exchange" appearing ...
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Add confirmation for saving a tag's syntax highlighting change
♦ moderators have the ability to assign to every tag a default language for syntax highlighting (see the FAQ):
When clicking the Save button, all that happens is that the button gets disabled, which ...
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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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Is the language name case sensitive for syntax highlighting?
I often use the syntax-highlighting feature of Stack Exchange in order to make my code easier to read.
```lang-python
for k in range(0, 10):
print(k)
```
for k in range(0, 10):
print(k)
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Why does "lang-bash" not highlight a list of commands and their output but adding the [bash] tag to a question does?
Why does <!-- language-all: lang-bash --> not highlight a list of commands and their output (like it used to) but adding the [bash] tag (instead) to a question does?
Example question: FQDN ...
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Why is my Python code not highlighted? [duplicate]
I have posted the following code in my question:
import numpy as np
for i in range(3):
n = np.random.randint(2, 10000)
m = np.random.randint(1, n)
A = np.random.randn(m, n) * ((1 / m) ** ...
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Syntax highlighting changes in the middle of a token; resolved in a later version of Highlight.js
The code in my answer over at Stack Overflow highlights very strangely:
I discovered this at Stack Overflow, but it affects just as much all other Stack Exchange sites with highlighting enabled (I ...
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Explicitly use Highlight.js auto detected language for a code block [duplicate]
Highlight.js does a reasonable job of automatically highlighting blocks of code in an unknown language. Sometimes as I'm writing a post which has blocks from multiple languages, console commands, log ...
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