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I tried setting a syntax type based on Jeff's Hints, but it doesn't seem to be working properly. Did I do it wrong? https://stackoverflow.com/a/8546141/124069
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In this SQL statement, notice the color of the word "having" versus the words "select", "from", "where", and "group by" select cu.name ,cu.email ,count(*) as books_purchased from customers cu ,...
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I noticed a bug in the syntax highlighting for Objective-C code. See this post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25623716/error-no-such-table-sqlite The apostrophe in a comment in the second code ...
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if(!/^https?:\/\//.test(val) && foo == 'bar') { val = 'http://' + val; } As you can see, the // causes the highlighter to switch to comment mode which is incorrect.
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I had initially asked this on Code review meta but @Mast in the comments suggested me to ask this on the main meta site. I have tested it on Stack overflow, Code review, and Software Engineering sites....
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Syntax highlighting seems to have been broken recently. For example see the code example at: WPF TextBlock Padding is cutting off text All the attributes' first letters are black. Is this a bug? ......
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I noticed a bug/feature with the syntax highlighting where two-character capitalized identifiers are not being highlighted inside code blocks. This does not appear to be a problem in the case of two-...
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All of a sudden, my syntax highlighting stopped working on Stack Overflow which can be seen in this answer. And now, even if I edit that post, try to post a question or an answer, there's no syntax ...
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I just answered my own question here (GeoPheonix answered in the comments but didn't provide a full answer), and the string in the code isn't displaying correctly: This may seem like a minor nitpick ...
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I've just noticed that the syntax highlighting no longer highlights C# "abstract" keyword correctly: Is this an abuse of the type system? I think it used to work correctly before. Anything changed?
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The title really says it all, but when I use the @ character to ignore escapes in a string literal @"Like This\", the \" is interpreted as a quote character belonging to the string rather than the ...
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If you put some XML in a code block (by indenting by 4 spaces) and one of the tags is <Style> it will mess up the syntax highlighting of the generated result. This works: <Style2 Foo="...
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The C# highlighter (and possibly others) chokes on non-ASCII characters in class names, as can be seen in this post: Trouble with if circulating EDIT: Prettify bug report submitted.
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for example: Is there a bash command that can tell the size of a shell variable has a few responses which involve the bash ${#x} construct. It incorrectly treats the hash like a comment. ...
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s = 5 // 2 if s == 2: print(s) As you can see the highlighting system treats Python's floor division operator // as the beginning of a comment. But // is not a comment in Python. Is there any ...
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