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The highlighting for SQL code blocks doesn't appear to recognize the keyword 'output'. Please see Showing column twice in a query, second time showing data post update/set for an example. Note that '...
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This is probably not the most important thing, but since uservoice is closed, here's a feature request. The syntax highlighter for code blocks really screws up on PostScript code, making it ...
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SO's Google code prettify on python wrongly handles // (floor division) as a C-style comment, as noted here, even when the question is tagged python. Here is a more recent example from this SO ...
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It appears that Ruby class variables aren't fully highlighted on Stack Overflow: class Foo @class_instance_var = 1 # fine @@class_var = 2 # not fully highlighted end The class instance ...
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I have been trying to figure out the Prettify (<!-- language: lang-or-tag-here -->) languages tags. Language Codes: default lang-none lang-bash, lang-bsh, lang-csh, lang-sh lang-c, ...
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Edit: I've opened an issue for this in the code-prettify project on GitHub. The author of the question Why does bash login shell break here-doc command string argument? noted in the comments that: ...
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I just wrote an answer on StackOverflow. I was describing a if-elseif-else algorithm in PHP and noticed, that the if and else expressions are in blue color, whereas the elseif term stays black. Is ...
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When I ask question about java code , I copy the code in eclipse. And then I paste the code on the web board like here. But the code's color become black only. Red, blue colors are not showing. How ...
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I was wondering if there is a makefile prettify language tag that I can add to highlight variables, flags or whatever prettify is able to identify. As mentioned in the comment by Frederic, I'm ...
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This question is a very good question about LOLCODE code: Down with FizzBuzz... LOL The formatting is pretty good except for the comments, which aren't formatted as comments. I can see this being ...
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Suppose some code snippet that appears to be some specific syntax like C in this case, and I want to format it like plain text: ``` #include <code> ``` On stackexchange, this will be rendered ...
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This answer taught me that highlighting a code block and clicking the curly brackets icons auto-formats the code block. Many developers, me included, are used to the comfort of format-on-save ...
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C: #include <stdio.h> int main(){ printf("Path to typical Windows directory: "); // We need to escape backslashes: \ printf("C:\\Windows\\\n"); printf("Can you see it?\n"); ...
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Highlight.js does a reasonable job of automatically highlighting blocks of code in an unknown language. Sometimes as I'm writing a post which has blocks from multiple languages, console commands, log ...
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1000000 1_000_000 Both these literals are modern ways to represent the same number, but the syntax coloring stops at the underscore. I hope this can be fixed. Turns out the answer is: Stack Exchange ...
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