Can we get some code highlighting?

Question

There has been some discussion about this before, but it seems we still don't have any code highlighting.

The illustrator-scripting, indesign-scripting and photoshop-scripting tags would definitely benefit from some JS code highlighting. HTML and CSS highlighting would be beneficial for a lot of web related questions.

People may argue it isn't needed and won't greatly improve the site, but why wouldn't we want it? How does not having code highlighting improve the site?

Some questions that would benefit:

• Is programming a website for mobile first really necessary?

• Favicon best practices regarding size and format

• Illustrator scripting: place image file if it has same name of illustrator file

• Convert smart (curly) quotes to dumb (straight) quotes in InDesign using JavaScript

• Specify CSS class names on SVG paths using Illustrator

• Batch convert svg to psd

• How to copy layers from one Photoshop document to another?

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Update: Seems there is no objection to this and general agreement (based on votes at least), so can this happen? Pretty please?

If implementing this is harder than I assume it is (i.e just asking for it), or there is a reason we don't want this—could we have an explanation?

Answer 1

I'm turning this on for you now. Note, there will be instances where syntax highlighting can't infer that highlighting should be used by the tags in use, in which case the moderators can simply link a specific syntax to a specific tag (which can be done on the tag wiki page for that tag).

Hence, if you wanted javascript for the foo tag, you'd (as a mod) need to head to the foo tag wiki to map it.

It's enabled on the main and meta site, enjoy!

Answer 2

Yes please. I have requested this before but they said there was no need. But here is a few of my posts that would benefit, if @CAI's list is not enough. Basically we have entire tags of posts that could use this feature.

Answer 3

I've asked the powers at the Galactic Empire to see if we can get an answer wether we can qualify for this or not. I'm in favor but I am biased as I love scripting questions.