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# Syntax highlighting of recent changes
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Hello,
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is there a simple way to highlight the diff printed in the [[/recentchanges]]
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page? I imagined several solutions, but I am still wondering about the best one.
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* One might activate the [[plugins/highlight]] and [[plugins/format]] plugins,
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and change the [[change.tmpl|/templates]] template, to use this plugin. But as
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the diff is formatted not to mess up html (e.g. `\[[link]]` becomes
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`[[link]]`), the output would be unreadable.
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* One might improve [[plugins/recentchangesdiff]] plugin by adding an option
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`diff_escape_html=>yes/no` to it. Setting this to `no` would leave html
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unescaped, so that it would be correctly rendered by plugin
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[[plugins/format]].
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* One might change the [[plugins/recentchangesdiff]] plugin, to add syntax
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highlighting to diffs, but this would duplicate plugin [[plugins/highlight]].
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In my opinion, the second solution is the best one. However, to be neat the
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`change.tmpl` template might detect that both plugin [[plugins/format]] and
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`diff_escape_html` option are enabled, and, depending on it, output the diff
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in `<pre>DIFF</pre>` tags or in the `\[[!format diff """DIFF"""]]` directive.
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Letting user edit `change.tmpl` template to enable this feature is also
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possible, but this would prevent him from benefiting of the later improvement
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of this template. In my opinion, an ideal solution would require the user
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nothing more than enabling some plugins or options.
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-- Louis
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