MacOS – Code markup in Apple Notes app

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I am currently running macOS Sierra (10.12.6) and was wondering if there is an easy way to format code (like there is for Title, Heading, etc.) in Apple's Notes app?

I'm open to any workarounds to achieve this. I would like to have syntax highlighting as you would see in a text editor (like Atom or Sublime).

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Notes in macOS High Sierra includes a Monospaced format.

In addition to the existing format types such as Title, Heading and Body, there is a new format named ‘Monospaced’. This format is a variation of the Body format but with a monospaced font family.

macOS High Sierra Hidden Features, Notes.app

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MacOS – MATLAB and Objective-C in Sublime Text 2

You may want to have a look at /Users//Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages/Matlab.sublime-package. It's a simple ZIP file containing a bunch of XML (Plist) files.

In the Sublime Doc for syntax definitions you'd be able to find a documentation of how to create (and edit) syntax definitions.

For an example have a look at the perl syntax definition, it contains a key named "firstLineMatch" which is not used in the Matlab syntax definition. But you could add one and create a file magic for/in your Matlab files.

Update : I just gave it a go and it doesn't seem to work. Do be fair TextMate can't do it either.

Update 2 : After some more investigation: The question about firstLineMatch came up in the Sublime Forum. The file extension is taking precedence over firstLineMatch right now. So there's not much that can be done. With firstLineMatch working you could do nice things. And this would mean that no file magic would be necessary since the syntax of Obj-C and Matlab files is different.

MacOS – Syntax highlighting in QuickLook

Finally ... I found page providing some QuickLook solutions based on Homebrew's caskroom:

brew cask install qlcolorcode

This is based on a fork from and old repository but is maintained and developed quite well at least until today.

I gave it a shot and it works just fine, though I still prefer the dark theme of TextMate :)

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