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Code highlighting on the forum
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Code highlighting on the forum
How about using this small library to highlight the code? https://highlightjs.org/
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Re: Code highlighting on the forum
We have looked at that in the past, and decided it was just more work than it was worth. Doing syntax highlighting on a basic .ini formatted file is not terribly difficult, there are libraries for that. Doing it for the Rainmeter syntax, as is done in Notepad++ with RainLexer, is complicated indeed, as there are hundreds of keywords and conditions, which should only be highlighted when they are in certain positions in the code. In addition, it's a moving target, as Rainmeter is constantly evolving.Active Colors wrote: ↑October 19th, 2018, 10:34 am How about using this small library to highlight the code? https://highlightjs.org/
We do the basic .ini highlighting in the documentation, mostly just to help the code stand out from the enormous amounts of stuff on a documentation page.
Just doing .ini file highlighting in the forums is close to pointless and at best a minor cosmetic eye-candy, and doing Rainmeter highlighting is something we are just not going to saddle this project with.