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Displaying code syntax highlighting by default

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steven.thompson.ca

25 Jan, 2017 05:11 PM

Hi, is there some way to make .md documents show proper code syntax highlighting? I'm using marked2 and when I do a quicklook on a file with code

```swift
func somecode() {
 print("nothing")
}
```

It just gives me a vanilla block with no highlighting. How do I get it to display a proper preview like I would see in marked2? Thanx.

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1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Brett on 25 Jan, 2017 07:00 PM

   

   Do you have syntax highlighting turned on under Style preferences?

   -Brett

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2. 2 Posted by steven.thompson... on 25 Jan, 2017 07:30 PM

   

   Yes I do. To be clear, I'm looking at the file in Finder not Marked2. So technically it isn't a Marked2 question. Maybe you can point me to a post or something that answers this question. I want to see markdown files similar to the way I'm seeing them in marked2 but using quicklook. Thanx.

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Brett on 25 Jan, 2017 07:51 PM

   

   I don't know of a Quick Look generator offhand that previews Markdown
   with code highlighting, but you could hack one together using pygments
   or something. Here's my fork of Fletcher Penney's:

   https://github.com/ttscoff/MMD-QuickLook

   And here's one specifically for syntax highlighting that you might be
   able to incorporate:

   https://github.com/n8gray/QLColorCode

   -Brett

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