Add Zig syntax highlighting.

[devara-gheist]

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name: Bug report
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title: 'Add Zig syntax highlighting.'
labels: 'Zig, syntax, highlights'
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Describe the bug
Markdown-Preview does not show any syntax highlighting for Zig programming language.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Add some Zig code
2. command :MarkdownPreview
3. a new browser will open
4. Zig code is plain, no syntax highlighting.

Expected behavior
Zig code got syntax highlighting.

Screenshots

Note: Zig got no syntax highlighting. No issue with the C and Rust code.

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Cheers!

[i-am-harveyt]

It looks like syntax highlighting is handled using highlight.js?

Support for Zig syntax was added in version 11.10.0, released on July 15, 2024.

However, the latest release of this project is from May 13, 2022, and it uses highlight.js version 10.4.1:

markdown-preview.nvim/yarn.lock

Lines 2898 to 2901 in a923f5f

	highlight.js@^10.4.1:
	version "10.4.1"
	resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/highlight.js/-/highlight.js-10.4.1.tgz#d48fbcf4a9971c4361b3f95f302747afe19dbad0"
	integrity sha512-yR5lWvNz7c85OhVAEAeFhVCc/GV4C30Fjzc/rCP0aCWzc1UUOPUk55dK/qdwTZHBvMZo+eZ2jpk62ndX/xMFlg==

Perhaps this could be resolved by updating highlight.js, though I'm not sure if that would be enough.

BTW, you may found live-preview.nvim as an alternative, yet its highlight.js version seems to be 11.9.0, due to the version used in markdown-it:

https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it/blob/0fe7ccb4b7f30236fb05f623be6924961d296d3d/package.json#L68