On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 7:05 AM, <fossil-users-requ...@lists.fossil-scm.org>
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> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 22:55:56 -0500
> From: Andy Goth <andrew.m.g...@gmail.com>
> To: fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org
> Subject: Re: [fossil-users] toc.tcl
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> 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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