syntax highlighting for native pipe |>

[stragu]

Currently, using the default syntax highlighting, the native pipe is highlighted as separate | and >. The following:

library(magrittr)
1.23 %>% round()
#> [1] 1
1.23 |> round()
#> [1] 1

^{Created on 2021-08-16 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)}

Results in this in the viewer:

It would be great to support highlighting the native pipe as a distinct operator.

[cderv]

I believe this should be solved in rmarkdown directly. We already released (in rmarkdown 2.10) a quick fix for html_document() related output, but I don't think reprex is using html_document() or html_document_base() to render the HTML preview. It is the same for github_document() - the highlighting oddity still remains.

We plan to make a proper fix that reprex could benefit. We are tracking this in rstudio/rmarkdown#2196

[jennybc]

Looks like reprex just needs to wait for the upstream fixes to happen, as described above. It's really not something the reprex package has control over.