References for ideas

[ccoVeille]

The idea of this discussion is to use thread for random ideas that do not necessarily require an issue yet. But may need to discuss about them

[ccoVeille]

This is a rust highlighter, you may use it

https://github.com/trishume/syntect

Maybe in a verbose mode, as a diff or as before/after provided with highlighting in the console

[ccoVeille]

By creating #161 I found this interesting resources:

https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/working-with-advanced-formatting/creating-and-highlighting-code-blocks#syntax-highlighting

I think it's the list of "fenced blockquote" known by GitHub Flavored Markdown

https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist/blob/master/vendor/README.md

This file comes with interesting information such as grammar parser

https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/languages.yml

[ccoVeille]

It's fun to look at the https://gh.io/acemodes then as mentionned in the header.

you will find the js code used to highlight them, so you can see their format

[ccoVeille]

so if you support shell, you can add zsh, bash, shell-script

You might not need this now but it's interesting

https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/languages.yml#L6533

EDIT: This idea led to alternative shell formatting with #164

[ccoVeille]

Other source of inspiration

https://github.com/benwis/femark

I'm curious how they handled the go partial code if they did

[ccoVeille]

This article explains what GitHub does for syntax highlighting via linguist

https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/working-with-advanced-formatting/creating-and-highlighting-code-blocks#syntax-highlighting

Mdsf is not about highlighting. But it could lead to interesting thing if you could use linguist or something like that to identify:

• language in a fenced block without language hint => so you could fix them

```
{"value"}
```

```json
{"value"}
```

• fenced block using incorrect language

```json
{"value"} // comment
```

```jsonc
{"value"} // comment
```