Posterous adds markdown and syntax highlighting support

#1

Post by rantfoil » Thu, May 27, 2010, 1:02 AM UTC

Posterous adds markdown and syntax highlighting support
blog.posterous.com

Re: Posterous adds markdown and syntax highlighting support

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Post by snprbob86 » Thu, May 27, 2010, 1:17 AM UTC

The line numbering behavior is curious. They seems to disappear when I click, but not if I click-and-drag to select.

Syntax highlighting with line numbers is tricky business. It is very difficult to get both 1) Perfectly aligned numbers and 2) Support for copy and paste without numbers.

There must be a decent Javascript solution...

Re: Posterous adds markdown and syntax highlighting support

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Post by bradgessler » Thu, May 27, 2010, 1:17 AM UTC

Cool. When are you guys going to support posting Ruby rack applications? TeX and PostScript would be a nice addition too.

Re: Posterous adds markdown and syntax highlighting support

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Post by rantfoil » Thu, May 27, 2010, 1:19 AM UTC

snprbob86 wrote: post #2

The line numbering behavior is curious. They seems to disappear when I click, but not if I click-and-drag to select. Syntax highlighting with line numbers is tricky business. It is very difficult to get both 1) Perfectly aligned numbers and 2) Support for copy and paste without numbers. There must be a decent Javascript solution...

Yeah, line numbering is tricky. That's why we hide the numbers when you click -- it's a mode that's built into CodeRay.

Note you can still just paste github gists on their own line and we expand those too -- so that's still another option.

Also you can probably just hide line numbers completely using CSS if you customize your theme.

Re: Posterous adds markdown and syntax highlighting support

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Post by twoism » Thu, May 27, 2010, 1:27 AM UTC

bradgessler wrote: post #3

Cool. When are you guys going to support posting Ruby rack applications? TeX and PostScript would be a nice addition too.

Right after hosted php scripts.

Re: Posterous adds markdown and syntax highlighting support

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Post by rantfoil » Thu, May 27, 2010, 1:30 AM UTC

twoism wrote: post #5

bradgessler wrote: post #3

Cool. When are you guys going to support posting Ruby rack applications? TeX and PostScript would be a nice addition too.

Right after hosted php scripts.

And hosted coldfusion scripts. =D

Re: Posterous adds markdown and syntax highlighting support

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 27, 2010, 1:39 AM UTC

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Re: Posterous adds markdown and syntax highlighting support

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Post by NathanKP » Thu, May 27, 2010, 2:19 AM UTC

Does the syntax highlighting support mixed PHP and HTML? Very few online syntax highlighters seem to handle this very well, not even gists from github.

Re: Posterous adds markdown and syntax highlighting support

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Post by ihodes » Thu, May 27, 2010, 2:34 AM UTC

Wonderful! Every day, more and more reasons not to build my own blogging engine.

One wee request? If you've got the inclination, Clojure's a language that's growing fast and is eminently useful: it might be useful to have a highlighting mode for it.

Keep up the good work!

Re: Posterous adds markdown and syntax highlighting support

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Post by mcav » Thu, May 27, 2010, 3:03 AM UTC

ihodes wrote: post #9

Wonderful! Every day, more and more reasons not to build my own blogging engine. One wee request? If you've got the inclination, Clojure's a language that's growing fast and is eminently useful: it might be useful to have a highlighting mode for it. Keep up the good work!

Second vote for Clojure, though a generic Liap dialect ought to get you halfway there.