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Dennis Hackethal’s avatar

Code blocks need syntax highlighting.

Veritula used to have this feature but I removed it when diffing changed.

Criticism
Dennis Hackethal’s avatar

Done as of cc1ab95.

Ruby example:

ruby
def criticized? idea
pending_criticisms(idea).any?
end
def pending_criticisms idea
criticisms(idea).filter { |c| pending_criticisms(c).none? }
end
def criticisms idea
children(idea).filter(&:criticism?)
end

JS example (h/t ChatGPT):

javascript
function criticized(idea) {
return pendingCriticisms(idea).length > 0;
}
function pendingCriticisms(idea) {
return criticisms(idea).filter(c => pendingCriticisms(c).length === 0);
}
function criticisms(idea) {
return children(idea).filter(c => c.isCriticism);
}
Criticism of #3950Criticized3
Dennis Hackethal’s avatar
2nd of 2 versions

When an idea has nothing but a code block, there’s too much of a margin at the bottom, between the block and the border of the highlight.

Criticism of #3951Criticized1
Dennis Hackethal’s avatar

Fixed as of a44c6c0.

Criticism of #3956
Dennis Hackethal’s avatar
2nd of 2 versions

The diff view can’t handle the removal/replacement of entire code blocks yet. The removed block looks broken, the new block doesn’t show at all. See activity 3207 in dev.

Criticism of #3951
Dennis Hackethal’s avatar

There’s a small issue related to previewing changes in code blocks: even when there are no changes yet, if the code overflows horizontally, the scroll shadow is shown through DOM manipulation, which in turn triggers the diffing library into thinking the user made a change.

So then the same code block is shown without any changes, under the ‘Changes’ tab, which is confusing. It should still just say ‘No changes’.

Criticism of #3951
Dennis Hackethal’s avatar

There’s an issue with horizontal scroll for overflowing code blocks in the activity feed on mobile. Can’t scroll all the way to the right.

Criticism of #3951Criticized1
Dennis Hackethal’s avatar

Fixed as of e49cd8d.

Criticism of #4016
Dennis Hackethal’s avatar

Would be nice if the copy button was sticky-top so that it scrolled with the user.

Criticism of #3951
Dennis Hackethal’s avatar

Done as of 43c4ecc.

Criticism of #4023Criticized1
Dennis Hackethal’s avatar

I spoke to soon. Rolling this back for now. Too jittery when scrolling on mobile. Non-trivial to implement. Need to see how other sites do it.

Criticism of #4032
Dennis Hackethal’s avatar
2nd of 2 versions

On mobile, there needs to be more of a padding on the right, inside the code block.

Criticism of #3951Criticized1
Dennis Hackethal’s avatar

Done as of 609b5c3.

Criticism of #4027