Best practice for formatting code in blog posts

https://www.blurpr.com/blog/?p=36

by j_b_f • 17 years ago

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streety2• 17 years ago

The result really isn't any better than what most blogs have. Yes it's highlighted and yes there is a horizontal scroll bar at the bottom to accommodate long lines but that seems fairly standard today.

j_b_f• 17 years ago

What I care about is not having the line numbers in there. Makes copying-and-pasting a huge pain.

philjr• 17 years ago

I know I've seen code with formatted line numbers in places that still allowed proper c'n'p functionality. I can't think where though.

streety2• 17 years ago

I was under the impression that a work around had been found for that but as I'm unable to find a tutorial or any discussion I could have imagined it.

Having to strip the line numbers out is a real pain. I agree totally with you on that. However, as the presence of line numbers is normally configurable in the highlighting plugins I still see nothing new here.

MarcusL• 17 years ago

@streety: Didn't mean to break new ground, just recommend the best plugin I found so people don't have to go looking around for themselves.

@philjr: Some of the flash/javascript that does copy & paste without pulling the numbers doesn't work in Google Reader and many other aggregators.

Best practice for formatting code in blog posts

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