Questions tagged [syntax-highlighting]
For questions about the syntax highlighting performed inside code blocks on Stack Exchange sites.
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Syntax highlighting for C++ ,initializing with `=` vs `()`
Here is the example
int a = 5;
int c(5);
I hope the syntax highlighting works for you, if not then the way a and ...
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Syntax highlighting for vba just changed
It looks like the syntax highlighting has recently changed for VBA (I would post a sample but I don't think meta does code highlighting...)
Here's an image to preserve what I'm seeing, tagged with ...
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Formatted C++ code is outdated for current standard
I don't know how it was decided which language to use when coloring the code blocks, but (on the main site) I assume it figured out it was C++ since it generally works OK. But, this line broke it. It ...
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Incorrect automatic Perl regex syntax
Becoming a Perl bandit, in this question I had to escape my regex expression \: to avoid funny syntaxing. Now on my newest Perl question, I encounter the same issue....
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Syntax highliting for Angular2+ questions
When looking at this question, I noticed that the syntax highlighting wasn't that great, most likely due to the mix of one block with HTML and Angular2 and blocks with TypeScript.
I decided to ...
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Can't get the syntax highlighting for Go
The syntax highlighting (for Go) does not seem to be applied for this question: db access wrapper for Go project
I tried to apply it manually to my answer (https://codereview.stackexchange.com/a/...
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python-3.x tag does not pass lang-py to code-prettify
I asked a Python 3 question, and tagged it python-3.x. The highlighting was messed up, because the python-3.x tag wasn't passing the lang-py argument to the JS ...
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How to properly display Matlab code?
When I try to post Matlab code, there are some formatting problems.
For example, an apostrophe is used in Matlab to transpose a matrix. But when this is posted, it is interpreted as the beginning of ...
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Meta code highlighting
It appears that we don't have code highlighting in Meta
In this answer to Your vote matters! the <!-- language: lang-sql --> was added to a block of SQL code,...
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VBScript Code Highlighting
Would it be possible to use the same Syntax Highlighter that Wikipedia uses for VBScript
If it is possible we could probably use it for all flavors of VB (vb6,vbscript, vba, etc.)
Right now we have ...
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Default code-prettify highlighting for C# is incorrect
Recently I had quite a few edits to include the correct syntax-highlighting for C# questions:
<!-- language: lang-csharp -->
That's needless editing for a ...
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PowerShell syntax highlighting bug with backticks
Refer to PowerShell Active Directory Browser
Backticks are incorrectly interpreted as some sort of string, instead of a line continuation character.
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Automatic syntax highlighting doesn't work for Lua
According to this meta question, tag-based syntax highlighting should be working but In this Lua question that was not the case. I suggested an edit to fix the highlighting in the question itself but ...
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Could syntax highlighting be improved?
I noticed the syntax highlighting on CR was different than that on SO:
Stack Overflow
Syntax highlighting isn't perfect - the blue and the red could be a little brighter, but overall it's fairly ...
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CSS hex color bug
When you see a question in Code Review with some CSS and hex color codes in it, it appears like a comment.
I think the syntax highlighter thinks that CSS uses python style comments i.e. ...
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How do you highlight code in a <pre> block?
Is there a way to highlight code syntax in a <pre> block?
In this post, I had originally inserted my code using a ...
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Lisp symbols not highlighted correctly
Exhibit A:
The symbol d_n+1 is highlighted as the variable d_n, operator+, and 1. This is incorrect; the symbol should be all ...
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Tag based syntax highlighting not working on all tags
If you look at this question, you'll see that it's wrongly highlighted and the poster had to add 's in comments, so the whole code didn't show up as a big string.
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Turning on syntax highlighting
On this particular site, I think it is absolutely critical to have syntax highlighting work, automatically if possible.
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