Code not coloured

A block of code names a language Statac colours, and one line of it is longer than 5,000 characters. Statac did not colour the block. It is published as it is, the way a block in a language Statac has no colours for is, and its <code> keeps the word in its class, such as language-js.

What you’ll see

warning  Code not coloured: a line in this block is 52,310 characters long
  Break the line up, or take the language off the block's first line.
  More: https://statac.dev/e/code-not-coloured/

In the terminal the message also names the file and line where there is one, and marks the exact text.

Why Statac warns

The time colouring takes grows with the square of a line’s length: a line of 50,000 characters takes seconds, and one of 200,000 takes minutes, on every build. A line that long is nearly always code one program wrote for another to read, such as a script with its line breaks taken out, where colour helps no reader. So Statac leaves the block without colour and the build stays quick. It tells you, because a block you meant to be coloured would otherwise go out plain without a word.

The length is counted in characters, and a line of exactly 5,000 is still coloured.

How to fix it

Break the long line into shorter ones, where the code means the same with the breaks in.

Where the code has to stay on one line, take the language off the block’s first line, or write text in its place. The block is shown as it is, which is how Statac publishes it already, and the warning goes. To keep the word for its class, quieten this warning with quiet: [code-not-coloured] in statac.yaml.

Example

In content/post-1.md, where the block’s one line of code is 52,310 characters long, shortened here:

```js
!function(){var a=1,b=2;a+=b}();
```

With no language named, the block is shown as it is and nothing is said:

```
!function(){var a=1,b=2;a+=b}();
```

Its name

Name	code-not-coloured
In the terminal	statac explain code-not-coloured
To stop showing it	quiet: [code-not-coloured] in statac.yaml, once you have understood it. Statac still counts it.