Automatic code highlighting, do you want it or not

[sterretje]

Based on below, a poll

A thread for serious bugs in the new forum

I don't see any options for controlling the code language autodetect threshold in the forum settings. There is a "autohighlight all code [x] Force apply code highlighting to all preformatted code blocks even when they didn't explicitly specify the language." option though. If we disable that, then highlighting will only be applied when the poster explicitly specifies the language by appending the language code to the code fencing: ```cpp void setup() { ``` If you want to advocate for that "au…

The point is that auto-detecting a language is not always reliable.

• If no language is specified with code tags, try to detect the language and apply syntax highlighting.
• If no language is specified with code tags, don't apply syntax highlighting at all.

[sterretje]

The votes are in I've now closed the poll.

An overwhelming majority is against automatic syntax highlighting if no language is specified.

@ArduinoTeam, please draw your conclusions.

[gilshultz]

I use Geany and it works great!

[pert]

This topic is about automatic code highlighting here on the forum. Like this:

void setup() {
  // initialize digital pin LED_BUILTIN as an output.
  pinMode(LED_BUILTIN, OUTPUT);
}

// the loop function runs over and over again forever
void loop() {
  digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, HIGH);   // turn the LED on (HIGH is the voltage level)
  delay(1000);                       // wait for a second
  digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, LOW);    // turn the LED off by making the voltage LOW
  delay(1000);                       // wait for a second
}

Looks pretty, right?

but sometimes we post things that aren't code in code blocks and they get detected as some random language and highlighted nonsensically:

exit status 1
'x' was not declared in this scope

[Klaus_K]

@pert

highlighted nonsensically

I think, that is highlighted nicely. Maybe except for "this". The Arduino IDE should do that instead of orange-on-black.

[pert]

Maybe we need a new poll to see whether we want "universal highlighting"
for all text on the forum?