Hacker News with Generative AI: Syntax Highlighting

Ask HN: Any editor with semantic, not syntax, highlighting? (ycombinator.com)
I've recently realized that the reason I seem unable to find a satisfactory syntax highlighting strategy, is that I don't really need any help to tell keywords from variables, strings from operators and so on, but rather to catch subtle mistakes like undefined functions or mispelled variable names.

Code Editors, Syntax Highlighting, Software Development

9 points by teo_zero 56 days ago | 7 comments

Emacs Tree-sitter custom highlighting (blogspot.com)
A few years ago I blogged about custom tree-sitter-based syntax highlighting in emacs. I started out with highlighting certain keywords in red. I wanted to show the keywords that interrupt control flow:

Emacs, Tree-sitter, Programming, Syntax Highlighting, Customizations

123 points by ibobev 56 days ago | 23 comments

Delta: A syntax-highlighting pager for Git, diff, grep, and blame output (github.com/dandavison)
A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output

Git, Developer Tools, Syntax Highlighting

642 points by nateb2022 168 days ago | 92 comments

Weird Lexical Syntax (justine.lol)
I just learned 42 programming languages this month to build a new syntax highlighter for llamafile. I feel like I'm up to my eyeballs in programming languages right now. Now that it's halloween, I thought I'd share some of the spookiest most surprising syntax I've seen.

Programming Languages, Syntax Highlighting, Halloween, Creative Projects

433 points by jart 175 days ago | 227 comments

Pygments, a Generic Syntax Highlighter (pygments.org)

Code, Programming, Tools, Syntax Highlighting

14 points by mmphosis 246 days ago | 1 comments