About markdown syntax highlighter

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Hi @discourse,

If I were to develop another markdown syntax highlighter (such as json, http, etc) would it be a markdown-it plugin such as markdown-it-sub?

If not, can you please direct me where I could learn more about writing new markdown syntax highlighter?

Best

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Syntax highlighter would be neither :slight_smile:

Have a look at: https://highlightjs.org/ we are on version 9.13.1

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Thanks @Sam_Saffron!

I've sent a PR to highlight.js so they add support to Kibana Dev Tools syntax https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/pull/1924

I am not sure when/if they will merge that. Do you think we could look into adding that change into the version used by you?

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bump @discourse

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I don't think this will be merged :frowning: but I think we can achieve this with a theme component here cause its simply a client side change. It is a bit tricky cause we defer load highlight so we would have to teach the client that ... when it defer loads highlight it injects this.

So you mind doing a post asking about how to add custom highlighter on https://meta.discoruse.org I will assign this out to a member of our team?

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Thanks for replying! I will ask how to add a custom highlighter, but I thought that, since you use highlight.js, then it's basically adding another language syntax support to highlight.js, which is what I did in that PR.

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I follow, if it is merged it will be no problem at all we will update highlight.js and be done. Its just that looking at it I am not sure it will be merged, so I think you will need a discourse specific customisation.

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What if a patch is generated from the changes? Is it something that can be applied to the version used here?

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It is not that easy, loading the patch is tricky, we can get this applied, I will track this official request and get back to you

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Hi @thiago, Sam asked me to look into adding this to your site as a theme component, and it should now be done. Here is a test:

GET _search?q=some text
POST /logstash-*/_search
{
    "size": 100,
    "query": { "match_all": {} },
    "aggs": {
        "price_avg": { 
            "avg": { "field": "price" }
        }
    }
}

If your PR for HighlightJS gets merged, let us know, we'll need to remove the theme component code I just added to support this here.

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This is SO GREAT! Thank you very much!

Yes! I will let you know when/if gets merged. I've been trying to ping the authors with no luck. Will keep trying.

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