Love the idea though I bet it would take a good amount of work to see this 
done

it would be great if BBEdit could recognize a shebang or, dare i say, Emacs 
mode line comment to change syntax highlighting
On Thursday, September 5, 2024 at 2:28:08 PM UTC-4 Craig Maynard wrote:

> I have many files that contain several sections with source code in 
> different languages. 
>
> For example:
>
> - Markdown files (.md) that also contain YAML frontmatter.
> - Bash scripts (.sh) that also contain SQLite CLI commands.
>
> I feel sure that BBEdit is capable of highlighting the code in each 
> section appropriately. However, we rely on file extensions to indicate the 
> type/structure of the file contents. That means BBEdit would need to use a 
> pragma or something similar in the file contents to indicate a language 
> change. That feels kludgy.
>
> Comments welcome.
>
>

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