Hi guys, I want to highlight code in Visual Basic for Applications. However, VBA does not seem to be included as a supported language in the documentation . Can i still use highlighter for this? Here is my config.toml: pygmentsUseClassic=true pygmentsCodeFencesGuessSyntax = true PygmentsStyle = "pe…

Probably the closest you can get is VB - is that in the list? While nowhere near the same tool, VBA is syntactically similar to older versions of VB. Not many tools support VBA highlighting as it is rarely used outside specific applications such as Microsoft Office.

Unfortunately (and surprisingly to me), VB is also not in the list

Chroma indeed doesn’t seem to have a VB (.NET) highlight. Not that I can see in the Chroma repository at least. You could open an issue here to request for its inclusion. A quicker way is to use a JavaScript plugin like Prism in your theme. They support Visual Basic and Prism is lightweight, so onl…

[image] Jura: A quicker way is to use a JavaScript plugin Not good for a static site really though, no matter how lightweight. Really depends on how many posts containing VBA will be created and over what frequency.

[image] TotallyInformation: Not good for a static site really though, no matter how lightweight. That’s a pretty black/white statement. 6kb of JavaScript to get syntax highlight is a much better deal than no syntax highlight, in my view. I’m not sure where you get the idea that JavaScript is…

[image] Jura: [image] TotallyInformation: Really depends on how many posts containing VBA will be created and over what frequency. Nah this is irrelevant I think. If you wrap the VBA highlight in a shortcode, you can use .HasShortcode to only load the JavaScript for the pages that actually n…

@TotallyInformation , thank you very much for the help! I never thought I can do something so simple as using online highlighting editor that generates html code but this is exactly what I need! Now my post looks way better! Thanks everyone for your support!

Syntax highlighter for VB/VBA?

TotallyInformation July 17, 2018, 3:18pm 4

The only other thing I can suggest is that you use a highlighting editor that lets you copy as HTML. Then past that directly rather than using the highlighter.

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Syntax highlighter for VB/VBA?

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