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Syntax highlighting

Alexis flexibeast at gmail.com

Sun Sep 12 22:57:36 BST 2021

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mntn at mntn.xyz writes:

I'm interested in opinions on syntax highlighting for

preformatted

text. Gemini has a lot of potential for distraction-free

developer

reference (I just discovered that godocs.io works in Gemini!)

and

syntax highlighting would help.

[...]

The Gemtext spec would seem to have no problem with this, as the

first

line is considered "alt text" and it is up to the client to

determine

both what should be done with it and how it should affect the

presentation. But I wanted to put this out there to get a

broader

perspective.

There was a thread on this topic some months back:

https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2021/005732.html

Alexis.