Some common programming languages don't show up for autocompletion, others don't work at all

[kindfulkirby]

For example Java doesn't show up for autocompletion, and C or C++ don't seem to work at all.
Personally, I'd also love to see Haxe, which highlight.js does support.

Would it be possible for people hosting their own hackmd instances to download or link their own highlight.js packages?

[jackycute]

Hi Tobi, for sure you could custom or add more syntax highlighting supports.

The parser code is here: https://github.com/hackmdio/hackmd/blob/master/public/js/extra.js#L505
And the textcomplete list: https://github.com/hackmdio/hackmd/blob/master/public/js/index.js#L95

[kindfulkirby]

I wish I had any idea what all this means, I'm really no web dev ☹️

I was hoping there might be a place where I can plonk down my own highlight.js package, but I understand it's not that easy 😉

[SISheogorath]

As we just discovered in #1004 (comment) all hightlight.js languages are available when using useCDN: false.

Currently wonder how we want to handle that. I agree that it's annoying to have some languages with highlights than the one that autocomplete. (Which should be basically fixed by the mentioned commit). But we still have some things highlighted even when they are not supported.

I currently consider to remove all highlighting from unsupported languages. @ccoenen wdyt?