Answer by Bohemian for Goodbye, Prettify. Hello highlight.js! Swapping out our Syntax Highlighter

Does highlight.js support emphasis in blocks formatted as "code" (ie indented 4 spaces)?

Paraphrasing an MSE question:

In-code highlighting (anything will do), would be a great way to emphasise the important parts.

Currently, the best people can do is ASCII art arrows, eg:

printf("%5s", "foo")         ^--- add a width value

which happens often enough and is probably not done more because it's a pain and ugly.

It would be great to be able to highlight (in this case) the 5 by making it red, bold, or whatever by surrounding it with some special chars, maybe like !5! or whatever works.

Awesome would be highlighting with a comment that isn't selected when copy-pasting the code block.

I'm putting my hand up to donate my time and coonsiderable software engineering skills to make this happen. Let me know when you have a github repo up, you've added me as a contributor, and you have a task management system up (eg Trello, please not jira!)