Forums to Support Syntax Highlighting

[nphaskins]

Quite often we're sharing code snippets to help our users when providing support. I would love to see the support forums support syntax highlighting. In it's current implementation it's not incredibly helpful to the end user.

Here's an example:
​https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reorder-posts-in-collection?replies=4

[valentinbora]

Syntax highlighting proof of concept

[dd32]

Milestone renamed

[dd32]

Milestone renamed

[vladytimy]

Some key points from ​this chat

• nowadays one would need to support different types of code and still allow to easily copy and use. Might need various toggle controls and stuff and a nontechnical user would not feel comfortable to choose from "CSS", "HTML", "PHP" if they don't know what that means

• typically, people will paste just a snippet, which may both start and end with some garbage. Syntax highlighting may go terribly wrong in pairing parenthesis, for instance.

• not even Trac doesn't support Syntax Highlighting, just numbered lines, which makes it impossible to copy code from the view.

Maybe there is a perfect solution that cover automatically language detection and incomplete code errors that we are not aware of.