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Developers in the Elixir community have been trying to get Syntax Highlighting support for the Elixir Language on Stack Overflow and other Stack Exchange websites since 2013:

But the latest build of Stackoverflow's prettify.js still does not have Elixir support.

At first I thought it was because of the incorrect language name on google-code-prettify, so I sent in a PR to rename it, but on rechecking the PR['registerLangHandler'] statements in the build, I couldn't find anything for ex either.

I feel like we're missing something very obvious here. How do we get SO/SE to include a language in its prettify.js builds when there already is support for the language in Google Code Prettify?

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  • You post a request here, as you just did.
    – Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
    Oct 7, 2018 at 21:02
  • Hey @SonictheAnonymousHedgehog, do you have any insights/pointers on how we could speed the process up? Because I feel like this request has been lost in the pile again.
    – Sheharyar
    Nov 2, 2018 at 1:03
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    Please see How do I get attention for old, unfixed bug reports and feature requests without official responses here on Meta?.
    – Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
    Nov 2, 2018 at 1:20
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    This seems to have fallen between the cracks again? Elixir is a small community on SO but there's enough activity to see questions asked on a daily basis. People have obviously been (mis)using ruby syntax highlighting in the meantime but if there's a specific syntax highlighting available upstream for Elixir it seems it should be implemented. In comparison, Erlang has syntax highlighting and it has a similar number of questions on SO. It'd be great to see this resolved. Thanks!
    – Darragh Enright
    Jun 23, 2020 at 8:51
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    Woo, status-planned! \o/
    – Zoe is on strike
    Aug 26, 2020 at 18:01

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We've officially switched to highlight.js network-wide. See the announcement post for more details.

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  • Does this mean that SE supports auto Elixir highlighting now (or will soon)?
    – Sheharyar
    Sep 25, 2020 at 14:39

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