Fix for google-code-prettify w/ c#

Question

Prettify gives types and methods the same class when tokenizing c# so they are colored the same. This is because methods are pascal case in c# instead of camel case like in java. This affects my blog and all stackoverflow c# code since they use prettify too.

Does anyone have a fix for this?

If not, you can at least star/vote the official bug that was reported in Mar/2009 so the authors take another look.

Answer 1

It is possible for identical syntax to have different meanings. There just isn't enough information to properly syntax highlight everything.

Take a look at this example:

static class Program
{
    class Foo { public class Bar { public static void Func() { } } }
    class Foo2 { public static Baz Bar2 { get; set; } }
    class Baz { public void Func2() { } }

    static void Main()
    {
        Foo.Bar.Func();
        Foo2.Bar2.Func2();
    }
}

In the first line, Bar is an inner class, and should be highlighted green. In the second line, Bar2 is a property of type Foo2, and should be highlighted black. Both Func and Func2 are functions, and should be highlighted black.

Here's how Visual Studio highlights that code.

Answer 2

I actually wrote my own syntax highlighting library to solve problems like this. It's pretty similar to prettify but you have to specify the language explicitly.

• Website
• Demo