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syntax highlighting in github commit message boxes #113

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GitHub does some syntax highlighting when rendering commit messages, we should match its behavior whenever a user is typing into a commit textarea.

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Hardest part is just that GitHub uses a monospace font, different than all of the other textareas we are enhancing. If we finish

then implementing this would be pretty easy.

Some important fact-finding we need to do first: what aspects of markdown does GitHub render?

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