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Broken REPL syntax highlighting of multi-line inputs
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Description
The julia-console.cson grammar is now in use for syntax highlighting of Julia-REPL code blocks on GitHub:
julia> foo(x) = 2*x
foo (generic function with 1 method)
julia> foo(2)
4
julia> rand(3, 3)
3×3 Matrix{Float64}:
0.0584225 0.130169 0.71839
0.374485 0.915134 0.546367
0.757699 0.195205 0.549311
julia> d = Dict(1 => 'a', 2 => 'b')
Dict{Int64, Char} with 2 entries:
2 => 'b'
1 => 'a'
However, multi-line input isn't highlighted correctly, only covering the first line:
julia> function bar(x)
return x
end
bar (generic function with 1 method)
julia> d = Dict(
1 => 'a',
2 => 'b',
)
Dict{Int64, Char} with 2 entries:
2 => 'b'
1 => 'a'
CC @giordano.
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Start by inspecting grammars/julia-console.cson and compare its handling of single-line versus multi-line Julia-REPL inputs using the examples in the issue. Verify how GitHub renders Julia-repl blocks, then ensure function and dictionary inputs remain highlighted across continuation lines and their output. Confirm the rendered examples match the intended highlighting.
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- julia
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- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
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