Cognitive aspects of navigation in gemini space

[Felix Queißner]

Hey,

> There's an existing convention in Markdown, if I'm not mistaken, of
> mentioning a programming language's name in curly brackets after an
> opening code fence, which is used as a hint for syntax highlighting.
> I'm not clear on the details, entirely, but people have mentioned it
> before.
Yeah, there kinda is [0]. It's called the "info string" and has (by
spec) no defined meaning, it's usually used to hint the syntax
highlighter on the correct programming language.

> It might be smart to adopt/extend that syntax?
I think that would be a good thing. I enjoyed some of the ASCII art you
an find in gemini space and it would be nice to recognize these in a
search engine and filter these out. It could also allow to search for
certain programming languages (considering ascii art a PL)

> For now I am leaning toward "recommended convention"...
Yeah, sounds reasonable. Having the info string in the spec is a good
idea though, but make it's content not fixed

Regards
xq

[0] https://spec.commonmark.org/0.29/#fenced-code-blocks