On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 7:05 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 22:55:56 -0500 > From: Andy Goth <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [fossil-users] toc.tcl > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > dewey.hylton says "```" imbues syntax highlighting whereas indented > lines are left plain. Fossil doesn't do any kind of syntax highlighting > at this point. Is there any interest in having this feature? I feel > syntax highlighting is both expected and bloat. We would have to decide > which we prefer: being simple or having me-too features. > > I'm curious how the Markdown formatter would know what language rules to > use for syntax highlighting, so surely there's more to the syntax than > bracketing ("fencing") the code with lines consisting entirely of "```". > I searched online and found the answer to be: put the name of the syntax > highlight mode (i.e. the language) right after the first "```" on the > same line, for instance "```ruby". >
There are JavaScript scripts to do syntax highlighting in the browser, so anyone who wanted to do that could. Hopefully, there is one that looks for something like a <div class="syntaxhl" lang="lang"> element. then libdiscount could be enhanced to enclose code-fenced code in that element. I am neutral on whether to do it, but this seems like it could be done with a few small changes.
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