Can't write Coffeescript code via markdown

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  abdelhadymu · Member · Feb 6, 2015 at 5:52 pm

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  I’m trying to write a Coffeescript code in my blog posts using the markdown, I was writing it like this:

  `coffeescript
  # code here
  `

  but it didn’t get rendered as a code at all, it is very annoying to have to write it as a javascript code to be highlighted well.

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Feb 6, 2015 at 8:07 pm

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  Hi!

  Currently, coffeescript syntax highlighting is not supported on WordPress.com. You can find a list of support languages here:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/

  I’ll add that to the list for future ideas though!

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  abdelhadymu · Member · Feb 6, 2015 at 8:47 pm

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  Thanks for the quick response,

  kindly, I hope you can support it soon, because it is a widely known language used by a lot of people.

  but on the other hand, I think if a language isn’t supported you guys should fallback to leaving the code block as is without any highlighting, but removing the block style & making the code look like the rest of the post is a very bad choice,
  I hope you can make that fallback option soon enough.

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Feb 6, 2015 at 9:43 pm

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  Ah – thanks for pointing that out. I’ll do some digging and see what we can do. I believe the code for this is pulled from the following WordPress.org plugin (which doesn’t appear to support fallbacks):

  SyntaxHighlighter Evolved

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  abdelhadymu · Member · Feb 7, 2015 at 3:26 am

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  I think it would be better if you switched to another widely used plugin like this one https://wordpress.org/plugins/crayon-syntax-highlighter/

  Crayon syntax highlighter has a support for many languages (including coffeescript :) ) , and has a “Default Language” for generic code (the fallback we are talking about here)

  I think bloggers with a technical background will highly appreciate this kind of change .. I don’t like the current highlighting anyway :)

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  lizthefair · Member · Feb 7, 2015 at 4:59 pm

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  We’ll pass that along :)

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  abdelhadymu · Member · Feb 12, 2015 at 1:00 pm

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  By the way, I really hope to see the default style for the code blocks to be a github-like style, we just need something simple & effective to ease the readability

  Thanks guys, & I hope to see these positive changes soon.