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Chris, I just received a batch of 160 CP forum notification emails.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The issue has been found, taken out back and given a serious talking-to.
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Chris Maunder
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Google Calendar reminding me there is a new episode of The Grand Tour tomorrow, an email from the garage to confirm the AC Compressor Pump I need to order for my car, but nothing from CP since "The Daily Build" at 12:34 (current time 16:35).
I did get your direct test message at 00:15 this morning, so it's probably not any spam filters killing things.
Loads of notifications though. I'm beginning to suspect this is just to get me to read them...
(Up to 61492 now)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It looks like the hamsters were just fed some laxative because a whole slew of late notifications just dumped into my email.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Yeah thanks for the visual. 
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Chris Maunder
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What are you Quick Answer filters set as?
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Chris Maunder
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What you're seeing is a lack of questions tagged Unicode. Remove "Unicode" from your filter and you'll see all the new stuff.
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Chris Maunder
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I removed this tag and used Win32api which is much more common. I got to a question from 2013.
color in console in c++
I personally see no problem answering old questions. If a question is no longer valid (for example, a question about Windows XP), it should be deleted or mark is "inactive". Otherwise, answering an older question might serve other people who might search a solution for the same problem.
In any case, I deleted my answer until we have a consensus.
- Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי
modified 16-Jan-18 6:29am.
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Instead of using the "Interested" filter it is probably better to use the "Ignored" one, to exclude subjects you are not interested in. That way you have less chance of opening all these old questions.
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Sure. I will next time. Thanks for the tip.
- Michael Haephrati מיכאל האפרתי
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What does CP use for its syntax highlighting in <pre> tags?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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A homegrown system that we're actively looking to replace.
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Chris Maunder
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The lowest impact one I've found is something called highlight.js (highlightjs.org[^]). It does pretty much what yours does, except I have to pre-escape < >characters if I'm showing something like List<someclass> unless i put white space when the type and the brackets. Unfortunately, the accompanying javascript is in pack format which makes t extremely touchy for changes. I added some C# types to it (.Net framework stuff), and changeed the of type color but that's about it.
The pointy bracket problem appears to be that the javascript code only looks for keywords between brackets, and not types. "string" works, my "String" (which I've defined as a type) does not.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 12-Jan-18 18:04pm.
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AFAIK highlight.js doesn't handle ASP.NET or Razor properly. We also prefer to colourise on the server side to save you guys the extra processing.
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Chris Maunder
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Yeah, there is no support at all for Razor (but I thought I saw something for asp.net). I saw that right away. To be fair though, I haven;t found anything yet that supports razor.
I've started a class to parse the c# on the server side, although my needs are a lot less severe than CP's.
Why do you want to ditch your home-grown code? Maintenance requirements because of changing language features?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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We support Razor 
Actually that's why we used our own in the first place: ASP.NET and HTML in general is multi-language and all the highlighters at the time failed to colourise properly.
Our colouriser is a little slow since it's based on regex's (as are most, really). I also want to be able to take advantage of textmate colour files, so I either want a colouriser that already does this, or I want to rewrite ours so it does it.
MAybe I should just open source our stuff and be done.
Hmmm....
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Chris Maunder
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Yes, please open source it.
I only need support for c#, sql, html/css/razor. I don't do any of the hippy/free love languages (basic, php, python, etc).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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OK.
I've actually been meaning to OS it for a few years but the code is fairly awful and contains a few nasty hacks as well as relying on regex's to parse. It's all bad.
However, maybe opening it up and baring our sins is the best way to make it better. It's how I started, after all.
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Chris Maunder
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I approved this message over eleven hours ago: The Lounge - Meltdown, Spectre mitigation Server Farm[^]
But it's still showing as "Message currently under review":
There are no messages or QA posts in the queue on the front page:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The message was still being served from the (outdated) cache.
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Chris Maunder
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Despite having the option E-mail me if someone replies to this message being checked,
no email is being sent when someone replies.
YES The email on the account is valid.
NO The email is not in the spam folder.
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On forums such as this one or on your articles?
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Chris Maunder
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Both, I didn't get any emails about my interaction with the article and just now, nothing for the forum post here either.
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