Automatically close code tags

[joepie91]

When using ``` to open a block of code, it's easy to forget to close it again. It'd be helpful if a missing closing ``` would be automatically inserted upon sending a message.

[chrisidefix]

Also, it should be possible to quote in text like this == like this and you shouldn't have to start a new line for a block of code - that's just annoying!

This should be fine
This should be fine

[joepie91]

Potential complication; you need to be able to add a language directly after the code-block opening tags, for syntax highlighting. Not sure if that'd become a potential edge case in the no-newline scenario.

[chrisidefix]

I don't see any complications with that - it's a question of implementation. All you have to do is parse the text right after ``` and if it's a key-word (e.g. javascript) then just parse it as that (or do it the way github does and simply render it as code.

[esambo]

I like the inline code syntax of Slack a lot. Fixed width font in red is great.
Syntax highlighting should be optional, even for:

code blocks
like this

GitHub renders it just fine right here!
Why not just use GitHubFlavoredMarkdown?

[joepie91]

@esambo Isn't that already what Rocket.Chat is using anyway? The language specification method I described is from GitHub Markdown also.

[engelgabriel]

Tested with js var a = b; window.alert('test');

and

var a = b;
window.alert('test');

or

even

window.alert('test');