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reply james.p.leblanc <james.p.leblanc gmail.com> writes:
Dear All,

I have noticed that quite a few posts and responses on this
forum include d snippets made with **nicely colored syntax 
highlighting.**
(I do not mean just the bold markdown text.)

This increases post clarity significantly.

How is this being done?  (I hope that this is not considered off
topic.  My goal would be able to make such posts myself.  But 
also,
if more post in this manner, it may help many.)

Best Regards,
James
Sep 05 2021
next sibling parent jfondren <julian.fondren gmail.com> writes:
On Sunday, 5 September 2021 at 17:48:51 UTC, james.p.leblanc 
wrote:

 Dear All,

 I have noticed that quite a few posts and responses on this
 forum include d snippets made with **nicely colored syntax 
 highlighting.**
 (I do not mean just the bold markdown text.)

 This increases post clarity significantly.

 How is this being done?  (I hope that this is not considered off
 topic.  My goal would be able to make such posts myself.  But 
 also,
 if more post in this manner, it may help many.)

 Best Regards,
 James


There's a checkbox below the post next to 'Enable Markdown'. 
You've found that with the bold markdown. If you click 
'Markdown', it's a link to https://forum.dlang.org/help#markdown 
which includes an example of syntax highlighting:

\```d
// I have a backslash in front of \```
string s = "so this isn't highlighted";
\```

```d
// no backslash
string s = "this has d syntax highlighting";
```
Sep 05 2021
prev sibling parent reply Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy gmail.com> writes:
On 9/5/21 1:48 PM, james.p.leblanc wrote:

 Dear All,
 
 I have noticed that quite a few posts and responses on this
 forum include d snippets made with **nicely colored syntax highlighting.**
 (I do not mean just the bold markdown text.)
 
 This increases post clarity significantly.
 
 How is this being done?  (I hope that this is not considered off
 topic.  My goal would be able to make such posts myself.  But also,
 if more post in this manner, it may help many.)


The markdown link in the forum UI should tell you how it works.

In case you can't find it, the info is 
[here](https://forum.dlang.org/help#markdown)

-Steve
Sep 05 2021
next sibling parent reply james.p.leblanc <james.p.leblanc gmail.com> writes:
On Sunday, 5 September 2021 at 17:55:09 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:

 On 9/5/21 1:48 PM, james.p.leblanc wrote:

 Dear All,
 





 In case you can't find it, the info is 
 [here](https://forum.dlang.org/help#markdown)

 -Steve


THANKS!  (Also ... sigh ... I swear I have looked at the
markdon page that Steve linked to several times!

But, my eyes had been looking for the beautiful green and blue
text as an example ...  So, I completely missed the fact
that the "highlight syntax" in the box was exactly what
I was looking for.

My fault completely ... sorry for injecting noise!

James
(**Sheepishly** backing away from my keyboard now).
Sep 05 2021
parent Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy gmail.com> writes:
On 9/5/21 2:07 PM, james.p.leblanc wrote:


 But, my eyes had been looking for the beautiful green and blue
 text as an example ...  So, I completely missed the fact
 that the "highlight syntax" in the box was exactly what
 I was looking for.


Actually, it may not be a bad idea to make that example markdown more 
colorful by adding some keywords and comments. Maybe instead of

```d
writeln("D is great!");
```

it could be:

```d
// should be highlighted!
auto str = "D is great!";
```

-Steve
Sep 05 2021
prev sibling parent reply someone <someone somewhere.com> writes:
On Sunday, 5 September 2021 at 17:55:09 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:


 -Steve


Slightly off-topic but ... while-we-are-the-subject:

I usually post with markdown enabled and enclose code within ```d

Sometimes, I notice that replies to my posts came without 
markdown, and until now, I assumed not everyone likes markdown so 
when I reply once again I do it without markdown even while it is 
far more difficult to read the post (from my point of view, that 
is).

Question is: is it considered bad-etiquette within this forum to 
reply with markdown-enabled to someone using no-markdown at all ?

For example; IIRC Ali's posts are always no-markdown.
Sep 05 2021
next sibling parent Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On Sunday, 5 September 2021 at 23:24:16 UTC, someone wrote:

 Slightly off-topic but ... while-we-are-the-subject:

 I usually post with markdown enabled and enclose code within 
 ```d

 Sometimes, I notice that replies to my posts came without 
 markdown, and until now, I assumed not everyone likes markdown 
 so when I reply once again I do it without markdown even while 
 it is far more difficult to read the post (from my point of 
 view, that is).

 Question is: is it considered bad-etiquette within this forum 
 to reply with markdown-enabled to someone using no-markdown at 
 all ?

 For example; IIRC Ali's posts are always no-markdown.


It doesn’t matter. Some people access the forums via the 
newsgroups or mailing lists, so they’re going to see the raw 
markdown in every post that uses it, whether it’s a direct reply 
to them or not.

Markdown support is mostly for the web interface, and is a 
minimally intrusive way to provide it so that it’s not too 
disruptive for people not using it.
Sep 05 2021
prev sibling parent reply =?UTF-8?Q?Ali_=c3=87ehreli?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:
On 9/5/21 4:24 PM, someone wrote:

 For example; IIRC Ali's posts are always no-markdown.


That's because I've been using Thunderbird for mail and news for a long 
time now and unfortunately it is impossible to convince Thunderbird to 
add the necessary header field. (Vladimir has a recommendation where I 
can run a simply local server that augments Thunderbird's headers but I 
haven't tried it yet.)

I should go back to using Emacs for news. I am pretty sure it will be 
configurable.

Ali
Sep 05 2021
next sibling parent reply Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy gmail.com> writes:
On 9/5/21 9:18 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote:

 On 9/5/21 4:24 PM, someone wrote:
  >
  > For example; IIRC Ali's posts are always no-markdown.
  >
 
 That's because I've been using Thunderbird for mail and news for a long 
 time now and unfortunately it is impossible to convince Thunderbird to 
 add the necessary header field. (Vladimir has a recommendation where I 
 can run a simply local server that augments Thunderbird's headers but I 
 haven't tried it yet.)
 
 I should go back to using Emacs for news. I am pretty sure it will be 
 configurable.
 
 Ali
 


This is *exactly* how I do it. Though I have started creating an 
iopipe-based clone cause I wanted to see if I could do it. Unfortunately 
std.io is not mature enough.

I plan to have a dub project so you can just `dub run 
thunderbirdmarkdown` and now you have a solution.

And to answer someone's question, I think everyone is fine with 
markdown, they just don't always have the capability.

I will note though, that some people use the mechanism for links that 
puts the link at the bottom of the post, and this can be annoying when 
you reply, if you don't include the link definition, it doesn't render 
correctly.

-Steve
Sep 06 2021
parent reply Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 6 September 2021 at 13:23:21 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:


 I will note though, that some people use the mechanism for 
 links that puts the link at the bottom of the post, and this 
 can be annoying when you reply, if you don't include the link 
 definition, it doesn't render correctly.


Now that's interesting. I had assumed it would be less annoying 
than having them inline. Especially since people had already 
adopted a similar convention before we got Markdown support. I 
gave up on Thuderbird and went full-on with the web interface a 
couple of years ago, so I've had no view of the experience 
post-Markdown.
Sep 06 2021
parent Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy gmail.com> writes:
On 9/6/21 10:13 AM, Mike Parker wrote:

 On Monday, 6 September 2021 at 13:23:21 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
 

 I will note though, that some people use the mechanism for links that 
 puts the link at the bottom of the post, and this can be annoying when 
 you reply, if you don't include the link definition, it doesn't render 
 correctly.


 
 Now that's interesting. I had assumed it would be less annoying than 
 having them inline. Especially since people had already adopted a 
 similar convention before we got Markdown support. I gave up on 
 Thuderbird and went full-on with the web interface a couple of years 
 ago, so I've had no view of the experience post-Markdown.
 
 


Yeah the convention isn't terrible, but it looks weirder for sure when 
the link is missing.

E.g. look at this post: 
https://forum.dlang.org/post/miahenxocgxpvasqgptx forum.dlang.org

and then a reply: 
https://forum.dlang.org/post/jreujgbixqadnwjsifwj forum.dlang.org

-Steve
Sep 06 2021
prev sibling parent someone <someone somewhere.com> writes:
On Monday, 6 September 2021 at 01:18:20 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:

 That's because I've been using Thunderbird for mail and news 
 for a long time now and unfortunately it is impossible to 
 convince Thunderbird to add the necessary header field. 
 (Vladimir has a recommendation where I can run a simply local 
 server that augments Thunderbird's headers but I haven't tried 
 it yet.)

 I should go back to using Emacs for news. I am pretty sure it 
 will be configurable.


I used Thunderbird many many years and when Mozilla started doing 
stupid things to FireFox/Thunderbird (and almost abandoning 
Thunderbird by the way) I switched to ClawsMail and I can not be 
ever happier since then. Tiny, unobtrusive, extremely-fast, 
extremely-configurable, and guaranteed 
no-surprises-on-the-horizon which for me was the tipping point. 
Text-only mail only, no HTML/no-JavaScript, so bye-bye lots of 
possible attack-scenarios. I adopted ClawsMail when I switched 
from Windows to linux as my daily driver. If you feel giving it a 
try it is on https://www.claws-mail.org/.
Sep 06 2021