[Question] Code Highlight for Excel Commands Syntax

Hello @ganesshkumar !!!

Sorry to bother you with a question that is not 100% related to this plugin.

I’m, finally starting to migrate my EXCEL knowledge to an Obsidian note and I’d like to ask something …

Do you know if there is an code syntax highlight for EXCEL commands.

=VLOOKUP(lookup_value, table_array, col_index_num, [range_lookup])

Is there any code syntax that I could use to highlight the arguments of a command in a code block ?

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Thanks for your help 😃

I wish you a fantastic day!

[FelipeRearden]

@FelipeRearden, here is the link to PrismJS’s repo - https://github.com/PrismJS/prism.

Thank you very much @ganesshkumar !!!

Little more context, a rendered syntax like the below

We can see that the arguments are not wrapped inside span elements and are not annotated with classes - token, argument or text. If they can wrap the arguments in span with some css classes then we can use some custom css in obsidian to show the alternating arguments in different colors as you are expecting.

This is absolutely amazing @ganesshkumar !!!

I am gonna create the FR and share all of your this knowledge with them.

Let’s hope they add support for this 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏

I am gonna close this issue but I keep you updated if/when I get an reply.

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Thank you very much for always helping me 😃

Have a great day!

[ganesshkumar]

It actually depends on what syntax highlighter tool/library Obsidian uses.

Theoretically it is possible to hightlight excel syntax by using something like https://highlightjs.org but it looks like Obsidian is using HyperMD’s syntax highlighting.

Can you check with the Obsidian community over the discord server on the same? If there is no immediate fix from the team, then we can check how to support this. Just wanted to make sure the work is not duplicated across the tool and a plugin.