# Elixir Syntax Highlighting on Stackoverflow

**URL:** <https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/elixir-syntax-highlighting-on-stackoverflow/2268>\
**Category:** Discussions\
**Tags:** syntax-highlight\
**Created:** [November 6, 2016, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/elixir-syntax-highlighting-on-stackoverflow/2268 "2016-11-06T15:55:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![nietaki](https://forum.elixirforum.com/user_avatar/forum.elixirforum.com/nietaki/32/3146_2.png) [@nietaki](https://forum.elixirforum.com/u/nietaki)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 5:44pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/elixir-syntax-highlighting-on-stackoverflow/2268/6 "2017-02-23T17:44:43Z")

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> [@OvermindDL1](#):
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> I really really hate the idiotic highlighting libraries that think everything can be lexed with regex, morons…

Don’t look in the source then 🙂 It is what it is though, as long as it makes the StackOverflow questions/answers more readable, I’m a happy person.

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