Apex Syntax Highlighting Not Working

[samdavyson]

The syntax highlighting for the apex code (used in Salesforce.com) in the samples folder is not working:

https://github.com/github/linguist/tree/4a017d9033f91b2776eb85275463f9613cc371ef/samples/Apex

Neither is the apex code in my private repos. The highlighting should be the same as that for Java but the file extension is .cls.

[pchaigno]

Linguist only detects the languages. The highlighting is done by Pygments. It doesn't have a lexer for Apex currently and this is why it doesn't get highlighted on GitHub. You can report the issue on Pygments' BitBucket repository (or even better, open a pull request).

In the meantime, do you think that we could use the Java lexer? I tried it on one of our Apex files but there seem to be some errors with the single quotes...

[samdavyson]

Yes I think the Java lexer would be better than nothing for the moment. I have reported the issue on Pygments too. Thank you for your prompt response.

[pchaigno]

I opened #1536 to set Java as the lexer for Apex.

Someone responded to you on Pygments' repository. Knowledge of Apex is required to make the lexer so you will probably be the best person for the job. I'm sure contributors to Pygments would be willing to help you.

[arfon]

@samdavyson - #1536 has just been merged and so this should improve soon (likely the next week or two) when we update the site with the new version of Linguist.