Use better color scheme for syntax highlighting

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Hello!

I wonder how difficult it would be to add a proper syntax highlighting for GDScript on the forum.

For example if I add some code here (shamelessly yonked from this thread):

extends RigidBody2D

@export var _move_speed: float = 620
var player_state

func _ready():
    pass

func _enter_tree():
    set_multiplayer_authority(name.to_int())

func _physics_process(delta):
    _move_speed = 620
    move(delta)
    set_player_state()
    pass

func move(delta: float) -> void:
    var _direction: Vector2 = Vector2(
        Input.get_action_strength("move_right") - Input.get_action_strength("move_left"),
        Input.get_action_strength("move_down") - Input.get_action_strength("move_up")
    )

    if _direction != Vector2.ZERO:
        apply_central_impulse(_direction.normalized() * _move_speed * delta)
        
    if Input.is_action_pressed('ability'):
        player_border.texture = border_spritesheet['ability']
        apply_central_impulse(Vector2(_direction.normalized()) * dash_power)

func set_player_state():
    player_state = {"T": Time.get_unix_time_from_system(), "V": linear_velocity, "P": global_position}
    Server.SendPlayerState(player_state)
    pass

It doesn’t do a very good job at highlighting it at the moment.

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At least the underlying parsing should already be correct, we use highlight.js with a GDScript plugin. We should probably look for a different color scheme though. Currently some keywords are only boldened which makes them look like the rest of the code.

3

Would be nice to have the same color scheme as the default one in the Godot Editor. I’ll add it to the to-do list :slight_smile:

4

Note that highlight.js wasn’t updated for Godot 4.0’s GDScript syntax to my knowledge, so it has no awareness of annotations and new/removed keywords.

I suppose it should be updated upstream in a manner that keeps it compatible with GDScript from Godot 3.x and 4.x at the same time (likely by keeping the removed keywords in the list of valid keywords).

5

GitHub issues for reference:

6

There’s also another alternative to highlight.js, which is PrismJS, I think it looks nice. Screenshot of prismjs in action:

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7

Discourse uses Highlightjs, it would be a hassle to integrate a second one. So we only add the GDScript plugin to what Discourse already has.

8

Last commit was 3 years ago though.

9

Yes, but we can update it. It’s still less hassle than integrating a completely different highlighter since it is really tightly integrated into Discourse