C syntax highlighting doesn't work

[thebaer]

Describe the bug

We're using a stripped-down version of the highlight.js library that doesn't include the needed code to do C syntax highlighting, and the right library isn't being dynamically loaded.

Notice that there is no c.min.js file in static/js/highlightjs/, so a WriteFreely post like this attempts to load it, but fails.

Solution

Instead of loading c.min.js when we encounter a code block labeled as c, we should load cpp.min.js. It lists c as an alias (among others, which we should probably do the same for):

aliases: ['c', 'cc', 'h', 'c++', 'h++', 'hpp', 'hh', 'hxx', 'cxx'],

(from cpp.js)

Application configuration

• Single mode or Multi-user mode? either
• Database? any
• Open registration? any
• Federation enabled? any

Version or last commit: v0.9.1

[mrvdb]

For the https://qua.name instance I have local quick patch in place just for this:

diff --git a/templates/include/post-render.tmpl b/templates/include/post-render.tmpl
index b0e8582..6b5f6a7 100644
--- a/templates/include/post-render.tmpl
+++ b/templates/include/post-render.tmpl
@@ -9,10 +9,20 @@
     // Set langs to the langs that are included by default (for now: 'common set' on CDN)
     var langs = [];
 
+    // Custom aliasmap
+    var aliasmap = {
+      'elisp' :'lisp','emacs-lisp': 'lisp',
+      'sh' :  'bash'};
+
     // Given a set of nodes, run highlighting on them
     function highlight(nodes) {
       for (i=0; i < nodes.length; i++) {
-          hljs.highlightBlock(nodes[i]);
+       lang = nodes[i].className.replace('language-','');
+       if (aliasmap[lang]) {
+         lo = hljs.getLanguage(aliasmap[lang]);
+         hljs.registerLanguage(lang, function() {return lo;});
+        }
+        hljs.highlightBlock(nodes[i]);
       }
     }
 
@@ -46,12 +56,16 @@
       // Check what we need to load
       for (i=0; i < lb.length; i++) {
         lang = lb[i].className.replace('language-','');
+
+       // Support a couple specific aliases
+       if(aliasmap[lang]) lang = aliasmap[lang];
+
         lurl = hlbaseUri + "highlightjs/" + lang + ".min.js";
         if (!(langs.includes(lang) || jss.includes(lurl))) {
           jss.push(lurl);
         }
       }

[thebaer]

Oh awesome. Would you mind opening a pull request with that patch? And either including the C aliases or leaving that for us to tackle?