Re: How improve syntax highlighter parsing for new operators ?

[Albert Krewinkel <albert+pandoc-9EawChwDxG8hFhg+JK9F0w@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Christophe,

christophe dervieux <christophe.dervieux-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> I wanted to make sure on where to report or look at in order to improve the
> Pandoc block highlighting.
>
> Recent version of R has added new operators. These are not recognized
> correctly when Pandoc is doing the highlighting. For example `|>` this is
> now a single operator and not 2 tokens - Pandoc highlights the latter and
> set two different classes, one for each token leading to two differents
> colors.
>
> I understand that Pandoc highlighting mechanism lives
> in https://github.com/jgm/skylighting but it seems the definition for
> parser lives upstream
> in https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/syntax-highlighting. I got that from
> the README.
>
> Is that right ?

Yes, that's correct.

> If I want to report an improvment request, or get help to make the
> improvement, should I go in skylighting or upstream and Pandoc will get the
> update later on ?

Going upstream first would be best, I think. A possibly interesting
point is also that you won't have to wait for skylighting to update, but
could ship an updated definition file with R Markdown, then feed it to
pandoc via `--syntax-definition`.

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