- "h" or "pl" etc from the dropdown that normally has "mdwn" etc in it.
- Is this a bug, or a feature? (Even if a feature, plugins with many
- extensions make the dropdown unusable..)
-* The per page highlighters can't handle "Makefile", or other files
- without a significant extension.
-*
+ "h" or "pl" etc from the dropdown that normally has "Markdown" etc in it.
+ Is this a bug, or a feature? Even if a feature, plugins with many
+ extensions make the dropdown unusable..
+
+ Perhaps the thing to do here is to use the new `longname` parameter to
+ the format hook, to give them all names that will group together at or
+ near the end of the list. Ie: "Syntax: perl", "Syntax: C", etc.
+
+## format directive and comments
+
+Hmm, the [[ikiwiki/directive/format]] directive would also allow comments
+inside source files to have mdwn embedded in them, without making the use
+of mdwn a special case, or needing to postprocess the syntax highlighter
+output to find comments.
+
+ /* \[[!format mdwn """
+
+ This is a comment in my C file. You can use mdwn in here.
+
+ """]] */
+
+Note that this assumes that directives are expanded in source files,
+which has its own set of problems.