Packages: (feature request) highlight LESS in HTML

[anovsiradj]

using LESS (and another CSS preprocessor) syntax hightight if <style> tag attribute type value is not default (text/css). for example:

<style type="text/x-less">
...
body {
  #content {
    ...
  }
}
...
</style>

thanks!

(sory for my english)

[Thom1729]

I'm ambivalent about this. It's not a standard HTML feature, and we don't generally like adding nonstandard features to core syntaxes. In this case, there's no LESS syntax in core, so the feature wouldn't even work without a third-party syntax. I think that's a compelling reason not to implement it in core.

On the other hand, I can definitely see that it would be nice if third-party syntaxes could more easily provide extensions like this. I've been thinking about improving the language-determination functionality for <script> and <style> tags in the core HTML syntax. Improving that mechanism might also make it easier for third-party syntaxes to "hook into" it.

[michaelblyons]

Sounds like a job for a third-party package with extends.