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Evaluate Twinkleplop for terminal code highlighting

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Terminal Markdown code blocks use a different highlighter from the local UI, so the advertised Twinkleplop-versus-Shiki speedups do not establish a benefit here. This task tracks evaluating terminal suitability rather than committing to a replacement.

  • The Markdown formatter uses cli-highlight, backed by highlight.js. That dependency renders HTML and parses it into ANSI output; Twinkleplop exposes HTML or flat token spans, not a compatible terminal rendering API.
  • No direct terminal performance comparison has been run. Startup, packaged size, ANSI output, language coverage/autodetection and plain/NO_COLOR behavior remain evaluation concerns. highlight.js is absent from the published comparison.
  • SQL formatting is outside this scope: @sentry/sqlish provides tolerant parsing, parameter recognition and structural formatting in addition to coloring.

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