Auto-detect code language for code blocks

[grandslammer]

I have no syntax highlighting within my code blocks (see screenshot). All my settings seem to be correct.

[Flexo013]

You need to tell markdown what language it should use for syntax highlighting:

[grandslammer]

Thanks, is there any kind of shortcut or auto detect feature for this? The editor has an auto detect feature. Perhaps it could be incorporated into code blocks also?

[Flexo013]

Currently that is not possible for code blocks. Auto-detecting it for code blocks could maybe work. It should only be triggered on a specific shortcut though.

I don't think such a feature would be in high demand as just typing out the few characters does not take a lot of time, and there are no possible interpretation mistakes if it is done manually. Cause I could easily imagine the auto-detect going wrong with tiny code snippets.

That being said, this is an OSS project, so if somebody feels like implementing this feature, then don't let me stop you.

[nammn]

This sounds like a useful feature to me. I could take a look at this in the future. Maybe either with the help of the library as a dependency https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/blob/master/src/highlight.js or inspiration from there.

[Flexo013]

@nammn That looks like a good library to use. If we could only use the autodetecting part of the library, then that would be preferable, as we already have CodeMirror to take care of highlighting.