It's been a couple or so days since I last made any changes to BlogMore -- mainly because I've been messing with blogmore.el -- but yesterday morning I decided to make a change I've been wanting to make for a wee while.

Ensuring fenced codeblocks were handled was one of the things that was important when I started planning BlogMore and, while the result was looking good (thanks to Pygments), the way the block itself looked in the page wasn't quite to my taste. So yesterday I wrote out how I wanted things to be changed and tasked Copilot with getting the job done.

I'm pretty happy with the result.

(defun greet (name &optional (greeting "Hello"))
  "Prints a greeting to standard output."
  (format t "~A, ~A!~%" greeting name))

For the sake of any future reader, should I happen to tweak this even more at some point in the future, here's what the above looks like at the time of writing:

Example code block

As you can see: the language for the block is now shown to the left, and there's a handy "copy to clipboard" icon to the right. I'm still not sure I'm loving the subtle border around the sides and the bottom, I think I'm going to live with that for a few days and see how it sits with me.

I'm also wondering if I should tweak the name of the language a little too, so that it's capitalised correctly. Of course, I could just get into the habit of writing the language name in the start of the block with the correct casing...

def greet(name: str, greeting: str = "Hello") -> None:
    """Print a greeting to standard output.

    Args:
        name: The name of the person to greet.
        greeting: The greeting to use.
    """
    print(f"{greeting}, {name}!")

but given how many code blocks I've got in my blog by this point, where I've typed them in lower case... it's probably easier to just tweak it when presenting it. Moreover, I do want to try and keep my Markdown sources compatible with as many rendering engines as possible and I can't be sure that all of them would downcase before doing the language lookup (although you'd hope they all would).

Meanwhile... given how much more I like how code is looking now, I'm going to have to find more reasons to include code, and Pygments supports so many languages too! Even ones from my distant past...

Function Greet( cName, cGreeting )
   If cGreeting == NIL
      cGreeting := "Hello"
   EndIf
   ? cGreeting + ", " + cName + "!"
Return NIL

As an aside: I also just noticed that they list FoxPro, Clipper, xBase and VFP as aliases for xBase-type languages, but no Harbour! I might have to see about doing a PR for that...