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Code Formatting

  • August 3, 2009 at 4:10 am

    #208896

    Hi all,

    As the current syntax highlighter appears to not really be up to the job, we're trying out a new one. For the time being, we've just put it on our beta site. I've set up a thread on that site's forums here:

    http://beta.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic761344-83-1.aspx

    (Red Gate people reading this, you'll need a different link - drop me an email). It's now using the syntax highlighting engine that powers (amongst other things) Google Code. Our initial testing seems to look as if it's faster and more reliable than the one on the live site, but we'd like you guys to give it your best shot and see whether it is good enough!

    Note that we haven't quite got it doing XML highlighting as well as we'd like yet, so you may have to wait for that a bit. Let's see whether T-SQL is handled ok first!

    Mel

    Mel HarbourProject ManagerRed Gate Software

  • August 3, 2009 at 8:04 am

    #1033656

    Thanks, Mel.

    Give it a try if you can.

  • August 3, 2009 at 9:46 am

    #1033730

    Seems to work okay, although it does seem to get the coloring (colouring for you Brits) messed up with multiple single quotes.

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  • August 3, 2009 at 9:52 am

    #1033737

    looks like you've already fixed the issue where the multiple single quotes; that was fast.

    I still see the issue in my example where a less-than-symbol was assumed to start an html tag and stripped out a decent sized portion of the code i pasted.

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  • August 3, 2009 at 9:53 am

    #1033738

    We've tweaked the Regex regarding the quotes. Seems to look better now.

    All bets are off regarding non-SQL code for the time being, I'm afraid. We're following the 80/20 rule at the moment.

    Oh, and before anyone mentions it, we know that copy and paste into SSMS in IE is broken in it. That's a stylesheet issue that we can fix. We're just avoiding making too many tweaks until we know whether it fundamentally works or not!

    Mel HarbourProject ManagerRed Gate Software

  • August 3, 2009 at 11:14 am

    #1033802

    Mel Harbour (8/3/2009)

    ...

    All bets are off regarding non-SQL code for the time being, I'm afraid. We're following the 80/20 rule at the moment.

    ...

    In that case, as someone who has already posted a bunch of non-sql code in the forums, I respectfully request that a "plain" formatting option also be provided that just provides a fixed-font, and does not otherwise change the formatting in anyway. And also, that any "code" tags other than {code} or {code="sql"} , just fall back to the "plain" format.

    I foresee a lot of backward-compatibility problems otherwise.

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  • August 3, 2009 at 9:49 pm

    #1034058

    I'd agree with Barry. My order of fixes is:

    SQL

    XML

    plain code

    VB.NET

    C#

  • September 16, 2009 at 10:21 am

    #1054586

    Hi Everyone,

    We've updated the highlighter on the beta site. We've now added XML, as well as [ code="other" ] for languages other than SQL or XML, and [ code="plain" ] which just provides a fixed-width font.

    http://beta.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic761344-83-1.aspx

    If you could give it a try, we'd appreciate your feedback!

    Cheers

    Ben

    Ben AddersonWeb TesterRed Gate Software

  • September 16, 2009 at 10:33 am

    #1054594

    Thanks, Ben.

    I'll let the heavy coders give it a try, but it looks pretty good so far.

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