Prevent spans crossing line boundaries in class-based code block formatter #2237
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The class-based code block formatter has bad interactions with other line-based highlighting effects (
linenos
,hl_lines
) because the spans it generates cross multiple lines. This patch copies thescope_to_classes
function from syntect and uses it to make each line independent of one another when using class-based highlighting.The
SyntaxHighlighter::finalize
method has also been removed in this patch, as it has been rendered unnecessary.This greatly increases the number of
<span>
tags generated by the formatter, even in code blocks that don't make use of line-based highlighting effects. I would be happy to implement a mechanism to only split the spans when it would otherwise cause problems, and keep the previous nesting behaviour elsewhere.Fixes #1942