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Syntax language can be highlighted

Oct 24th, 2006

Hey guys! Just what you've been waiting for ... You can now specify a language within your code bbcode to use syntax highlighting just like in our code snippet library.

For example ... Just do [code=c] ...

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 c Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
printf("Hello World\n");
printf("Hello World\n");

Additionally, you can use the noparse bbcode when you don't want bbcode to be parsed. For example ... [b]Hi[/b] ... notice that [b] wasn't parsed into bold despite a matching close tag and no funky spaces thrown in.

Last edited by cscgal; Oct 24th, 2006 at 9:36 pm.

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Re: Syntax language can be highlighted

Oct 25th, 2006

Excellent!!!

If I may humbly suggest a few visual suggestions, though:

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 c Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>
 
char* Word[]= { "Alpha ",   "Bravo ",   "Charlie ", "Delta ",   "Echo ",    
                "Foxtrot ", "Golf ",    "Hotel ",   "India ",   "Juliet ",  
                "Kilo ",    "Lima ",    "Mike ",    "November ","Oscar ",   
                "Papa ",    "Quebec ",  "Romeo ",   "Sierra ",  "Tango ",   
                "Uniform ", "Victor ",  "Whiskey ", "X=ray ",   "Yankee ",  
                "Zulu "
              };
 
int main()     // This is a comment
{
    char  inbuf[200];
    char *p;
    int   i;
 
    printf("Enter: ");
    fgets(inbuf, 200, stdin);
 
    p = inbuf;
    while (*p)
    {
        if (isupper(*p))
        {
            i = *p - 'A';
            printf("%s", Word[i]);
        }
        else
        if (islower(*p))
        {
            i = *p - 'a';
            printf("%s", Word[i]);
        }
        else
        {
            putchar(*p);
        }
        p++;
    }
 
    return 1;
}
#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>

char* Word[]= { "Alpha ",   "Bravo ",   "Charlie ", "Delta ",   "Echo ",    
                "Foxtrot ", "Golf ",    "Hotel ",   "India ",   "Juliet ",  
                "Kilo ",    "Lima ",    "Mike ",    "November ","Oscar ",   
                "Papa ",    "Quebec ",  "Romeo ",   "Sierra ",  "Tango ",   
                "Uniform ", "Victor ",  "Whiskey ", "X=ray ",   "Yankee ",  
                "Zulu "
              };

int main()     // This is a comment
{
    char  inbuf[200];
    char *p;
    int   i;
    
    printf("Enter: ");
    fgets(inbuf, 200, stdin);
    
    p = inbuf;
    while (*p)
    {
        if (isupper(*p))
        {
            i = *p - 'A';
            printf("%s", Word[i]);
        }
        else
        if (islower(*p))
        {
            i = *p - 'a';
            printf("%s", Word[i]);
        }
        else
        {
            putchar(*p);
        }
        p++;
    }
    
    return 1;
}

To follow more closely what I've seen:
comments in green
"Strings" and 'characters' in blue
Numbers in dark blue
Keywords in bold purple (no underline)
All else is black
C/C++ functions don't need to be colored, but if they are, use a dark color like maybe red

All the colors should be of a similar intensity. The switch from the keyword-yellow to function-underline/blue is too striking.

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 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <ctype.h>

 char* Word[]= { "Alpha ",   "Bravo ",   "Charlie ", "Delta ",   "Echo ",    
                "Foxtrot ", "Golf ",    "Hotel ",   "India ",   "Juliet ",  
                "Kilo ",    "Lima ",    "Mike ",    "November ","Oscar ",   
                "Papa ",    "Quebec ",  "Romeo ",   "Sierra ",  "Tango ",   
                "Uniform ", "Victor ",  "Whiskey ", "X=ray ",   "Yankee ",  
                "Zulu "
              };

int main()   // This is a comment
{
    char  inbuf[200];
    char *p;
    int   i;
    
    printf("Enter: ");
    fgets(inbuf, 200, stdin);
    
    p = inbuf;
    while (*p)
    {
        if (isupper(*p))
        {
            i = *p - 'A';
            printf("%s", Word[i]);
        }
        else
        if (islower(*p))
        {
            i = *p - 'a';
            printf("%s", Word[i]);
        }
        else
        {
            putchar(*p);
        }
        p++;
    }
    
    return 1;
}

I also notice in the [code=c] section, there is no formatting displayed in the edit window. I assume that's just a glitch, but I thought I'd at least point it out, just in case.

Also, is there a possibility to close up the gap between lines just a tad -- at least as a test? I'd like to see a little less space and a little more code. Instead of 1.5 spacing maybe 1.25.

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Re: Syntax language can be highlighted

Oct 26th, 2006

Or how about 1.00...

But WaltP's colors are all wrong. Yours are better. (Mine are the best. No you can't have them

)

I know! Let's through obscure languages at the feature!

 Help with Code Tags 
 haskell Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
factorial 0 = 1
factorial n = n * factorial (n - 1)
factorial 0 = 1
factorial n = n * factorial (n - 1)

It doesn't look like you have Haskell highlighting yet.

 Help with Code Tags 
 scheme Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
((call/cc call/cc)
 (lambda (f)
   (display "Hello, world!")
   (newline)
   (f f)))
((call/cc call/cc)
 (lambda (f)
   (display "Hello, world!")
   (newline)
   (f f)))

Well at least you have Scheme. But the highlighting is broken, since it treats display and newline like keywords, when they're just built-in procedures.

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