#1

Currently, code blocks only have syntax highlighting in preview mode. Can this come to edit mode as well, please?

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#2

That might be part of the future WYSIWYG editor work.

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#3

Would love to see that as I work a lot in edit mode. :+1:t2:

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#4

Yes but with WYSIWYG I would assume there’s no edit mode and thing are as they should be then…

#5

You can still have syntax highlight in editing mode with WYSIWYG. Zettlr for instance does that well:

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It simply colours the words inside the code block differently to get syntax highlight while editing.

(For what it’s worth, Zettlr also uses code-mirror so this feature should be possible with Obsidian too.)

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#6

+1 for this, I never touch preview and want this bad.

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#7

Syntax highlighting for code blocks in edit mode would be tremendously useful…

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#8

Heavy +1 for this

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#9

Typora has one of the absolute best editing w/ syntax highlighting experiences for Markdown. I just wish it had multi-cursors and regex replace like VSCode. Obsidian would blow it out of the water if it had all of the above!

#10

+1 For this as well. In the past, I built my own notes editor using https://ace.c9.io/ with custom syntax highlighting for markdown and (specific languages) code blocks. Obviously not a simple solution here as Obsidian doesn’t rely on Ace, but certainly seems like its possible.

#11

The idea of Typora being blown out of the water is :sob:

#12

will be implemented in 0.13.6

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