[meta] Get syntax highlighting for Bikeshed files

[Crissov]

I’m not sure whether you could override Github’s syntax highlighting locally for the whole repository, but it would help if .bs files were parsed as either HTML or Markdown files.

Eventually, it should be added to https://github.com/github/linguist but things like speced/bikeshed#214 would probably have to be fixed first. Alternatively, the file extension could be changed to include .md or .html.

[upsuper]

Given that this repo is marked that 86.3% of the code is HTML, I suspect that GitHub's linguist has already recognized .bs files here as HTML. But highlight doesn't use the language from linguist. I guess that relies on some variant of pygments.

Linguist's README says you can use vim or emacs modelines to specify language for highlight of a given file, which is probably something we can actually do.

[upsuper]

I suspect that GitHub's linguist has already recognized .bs files here as HTML.

Oh, hmm, no. Linguist actually think those files are plain text, so they are probably not counted as source files at all...

[fantasai]

File this against the bikeshed repo, please, as it's more of a bikeshed issue than a CSS spec issue? Thanks~

[tabatkins]

I have no idea what I'd do for it in Bikeshed, either. I guess try and bug GitHub to add support for Bikeshed files? But I don't have a good, official syntax highlighter for them yet anyway, and GitHub doesn't have an official issues list anyway.

[upsuper]

GitHub's Linguist repo is probably where the issue should go https://github.com/github/linguist

[Crissov]

Meanwhile, github-linguist/linguist#1792 has been closed and a .gitattributes override should work, e.g. treating Bikeshed as Markdown (which includes HTML):

$ cat .gitattributes
*.bs linguist-language=Markdown

[tabatkins]

I've added a .gitattributes setting the highlighting language to HTML. I tried Markdown first, but it misfired a good bit, and didn't highlight most of the markup.