Enable syntax highlighting for inline code about html-pipeline HOT 3 CLOSED

@gjtorikian brings up a valid concern.

I wonder what the performance implications would be.

Maybe we add a context option for tags to syntax highlight, and the default option is a pre tag?

Once one or many tags can be searched, benchmarks could be performed.

Thoughts?

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The more I think about this the harder it becomes. Linguist uses file extensions and text analysis to determine how to highlight a file. A few tokens might not be enough to determine how code should be colored. (This is all just a pessimistic guess, though.)

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It's an interesting suggestion, but I'm going to say no to this feature.

When using multi-line fenced code blocks, the user can explicitly specify the language for us to highlight. For inline blocks, we'd have to guess what the language is. There will be lots of ambiguity if it's only a few tokens, and if an inline phrase is used, then it's likely to be short. This would increase the time to render, and give potential bad highlights.

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