Re: [IBMiOSS] FYI - Adding new language (syntax highlighting) on Github

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Good to know, thanks for the research.

Aaron Bartell
litmis.com - Services for open source on IBM i


On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Garwynn XDA <xdagarwynn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Sorry for the delay on this, Github responded with a link on how to
> contribute adding syntax highlighting for currently unsupported languages:
>
> https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
>
> It says the following up front, which may be a barrier in the short term:
>
> "We try only to add languages once they have some usage on GitHub. In most
> cases we prefer that each new file extension be in use *in hundreds of
> repositories* before supporting them in Linguist."
>
> But at least we now have the steps on how to do it.
> Still checking on Bitbucket, think it relies on CodeMirror.
>
> Respectfully,
> Daniel Moran
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