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+title = "Syntax highlighting for console snippets"
+date = 2020-05-19
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+
+Finally, I moved my blog from wordpress to a static site. I chose [zola](https://www.getzola.org/) as the
+site generator, because most of my documentation nowadays is in markdown anyway.
+
+Syntax highlighting was a badly missed feature for me in the past. And zola deliveres :-)
+
+The only thing missing was syntax highlighting for `console` (terminal) snippets.
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+
+I need it to display e.g.:
+```console
+$ cd /lib/systemd/system
+$ for i in fedora*storage* lvm2-monitor.* mdmonitor*.*; \
+ do sudo systemctl mask $i; \
+ done
+```
+
+with
+``````
+```console
+$ cd /lib/systemd/system
+$ for i in fedora*storage* lvm2-monitor.* mdmonitor*.*; \
+ do sudo systemctl mask $i; \
+ done
+```
+``````
+
+TLDR: [git repo](https://github.com/haraldh/Sublime-console)
+
+Using `bash` as the language indicator does not really fit. 
+
+``````
+```bash
+$ echo "Hello World" # comment
+Hello World
+$ echo -e ""
+
+```
+``````
+
+renders as
+
+```bash
+$ echo "Hello World" # comment
+Hello World
+$ echo -e ""
+
+``` 
+
+It does not honor the shell prompt, so I took the sublime files for `bash` and extended them for `console`.
+
+``````
+```console
+$ echo "Hello World" # comment
+Hello World
+$ echo -e ""
+
+```
+``````
+
+renders as
+
+```console
+$ echo "Hello World" # comment
+Hello World
+$ echo -e ""
+
+``` 
+
+as would a
+
+``````
+```bash
+echo "Hello World" # comment
+echo -e ""
+```
+``````
+
+```bash
+echo "Hello World" # comment
+echo -e ""
+``` 
+
+Note: as you can see, the `echo` is not colored in the second line,
+so I filed an [issue](https://github.com/sublimehq/Packages/issues/2367)
+for the sublime bash syntax source.
+
+I still have to figure out how to handle
+``````
+```console
+# echo "Hello World"
+# echo "Hello World"
+```
+``````
+
+```console
+# echo "Hello World"
+# echo "Hello World"
+``` 
+
+although this seems to work:
+
+``````
+```console
+# echo "Hello World"
+Hello World
+# echo "Hello World"
+Hello World
+```
+``````
+
+```console
+# echo "Hello World"
+Hello World
+# echo "Hello World"
+Hello World
+``` 
+
+Nevertheless, I uploaded the console sublime syntax to a [git repo](https://github.com/haraldh/Sublime-console).
+
+Feel free to use it.