Syntax highlighting

Alexis flexibeast at gmail.com
Sun Sep 12 22:57:36 BST 2021


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.


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