Code Formatting/Highlights for GWT Group Postings?

[Joseph Lust]

I've seen a few examples of contextually formatted and highlighted code submitted for questions/responses. I was curious how one achieves this in Google Groups as I've seen no facilities for it. Thx.

Sincerely,

Joseph

[Brandon Donnelson]

Do you mean like this below?

public class DatePickerEnhanced extends DatePicker {
    public static DatePickerEnhanced newInstance() {
        DefaultMonthSelector monthSelector = new DefaultMonthSelector();
        CalendarView view = new DefaultCalendarView();
        CalendarModel model = new CalendarModel();
        return new DatePickerEnhanced(monthSelector, view, model);
    }

    public DatePickerEnhanced() {
        super(new DefaultMonthSelector(), new DefaultCalendarView(), new CalendarModel());
    }

    public DatePickerEnhanced(DefaultMonthSelector monthSelector, CalendarView view, CalendarModel model) {
        super(monthSelector, view, model);
    }

    public CalendarView getCalendarView() {
        return getView();
    }
}

[Joseph Lust]

Why yes Brandon,

That is exactly what I fancy. I was hoping that given the heavy usage of GoogleCode, they'd add a <code> tag to their editor here, but alas, no such luck. What is your formatter of choice that works well with these forums?

Sincerely,

Joseph

[Brandon Donnelson]

I agree with you, I'd love to see some function like that. I like the code tag.

What I find works best is using Google Code to render the code in html then I copy and paste it here. I've also done this from google sites, but I like they grey background and code style better when its copied from Google code. Copy and pasting from eclipse really bites b/c it double spaces everything. And for being a group all about source, it would really make sense to add some kind of code formatting. 

http://code.google.com/p/gwt-examples/wiki/TestWikiStuff - this is my playground for copy pasting here. 

I think the next best option is paste your code and then select it and hit code format button at the top of this input window. I could see clean up formatting and add the correct formatting for code. 

Have a good day,
Brandon Donnelson

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[Joseph Lust]

After using a comment panel in Brian's GoogleGroups for a while to format my posts, and spamming Brian, I've discovered and easier way to format you code for presenting to the GWT posse.

1. Open up any posting/issue/wiki page in GitHub, like this one.
   
2. Paste your code in and surround with ```<languageName><yourCode>```
3. Click preview and copy and paste into your GWT Groups posting.

Example Input:

```scala

object pingpong extends Application {

  val pong = new Pong

  val ping = new Ping(100000, pong)

  ping.start

  pong.start

}

```

Example Output:

object pingpong extends Application {
  val pong = new Pong
  val ping = new Ping(100000, pong)
  ping.start
  pong.start
}

Perhaps we can put a sticky about this under posting on the group since we get unformatted code posting that are quite difficult to read all the time.

Sincerely,

Joseph

[Brandon Donnelson]

Nice work. 

One other way to format in github sntax with out enclosing follow with two spaces+ and then triple tick.

```java

public void static main(String[] args) {}..

By the way, this might interest you too > http://c.dart-examples.com/reference/gadgets I've created a Google Gadget for gists. 

Have a good day,
Brandon Donnelson

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Sincerely,

Joseph

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[Jens]

Huu...just found "Markdown Here" @ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/elifhakcjgalahccnjkneoccemfahfoa

After you have installed it you can write Github-flavoured Markdown into any Textarea ( = Google Groups, Gmail, ...) and then right click into the TextArea and choose "Markdown Toggle" to make it look pretty :-)

public static void main(String[] args) {
  System.out.println("Thats awesome!");
}

-- J.

[Joseph Lust]

I think my daily visits to GitHub just dropped 90%. Thanks!

Joe

[Joe Corneli]

Thanks Jens and Joseph -- useful tips!

I wanted to add: "Markdown Here" is also available for Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/markdown-here/