urosm
/
ikiwiki
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

Throw another source highlighting option into the ring

master
bremner 2009-02-14 08:36:28 -05:00 committed by Joey Hess
parent 0bf554ce06
commit e159545ba7
1 changed files with 5 additions and 0 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

5
doc/todo/syntax_highlighting.mdwn
View File

@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ pages, as well as doing syntax highlighting as a preprocessor directive
* [[users/jasonblevins]]'s code plugin uses src-highlight, and supports both
while file and directive use.
* [hlsimple](http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/?p=ikiplugins.git;a=blob_plain;f=IkiWiki/Plugin/hlsimple.pm;hb=795f888a2c1b17f6d90a8f01f74b09395f0738d5) is a wrapper for the the perl module Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Simple. This is pure perl, pretty simple, uses css. It ought to be pretty fast (according to the author, and just because it is not external).
On the other hand, there are not many predefined languages yet. Defining language syntaxes is about as much
work as source-highlight, but in perl. I plan to package the base module for debian. Perhaps after the author
releases the 5 or 6 language definitions he has running on his web site, it might be suitable for inclusion in ikiwiki. [[DavidBremner]]
## General problems
* Using non-perl syntax highlighting backends is slow. I'd prefer either