1 There's been a lot of work on contrib syntax highlighting plugins. One should be
2 picked and added to ikiwiki core.
4 Ideally, it should support both converting whole source files into wiki
5 pages, as well as doing syntax highlighting as a preprocessor directive
6 (which is either passed the text, or reads it from a file).
8 ## The big list of possibilities
10 * [[plugins/contrib/highlightcode]] uses [[!cpan Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Kate]],
11 operates on whole source files only, has a few bugs (see
12 [here](http://u32.net/Highlight_Code_Plugin/), and needs to be updated to
13 support [[bugs/multiple_pages_with_same_name]].
14 * [[!cpan IkiWiki-Plugin-syntax]] only operates as a directive.
15 Interestingly, it supports multiple highlighting backends, including Kate
17 * [[plugins/contrib/syntax]] only operates as a directive
18 ([[not_on_source_code_files|automatic_use_of_syntax_plugin_on_source_code_files]]),
19 and uses [[!cpan Text::VimColor]].
20 * [[plugins/contrib/sourcehighlight]] uses src-highlight, and operates on
21 whole source files only. Needs to be updated to
22 support [[bugs/multiple_pages_with_same_name]].
23 * [[sourcecode|todo/automatic_use_of_syntax_plugin_on_source_code_files/discussion]]
24 also uses src-highlight, and operates on whole source files.
25 Updated to work with the fix for [[bugs/multiple_pages_with_same_name]]. Untested with files with no extension, e.g. `Makefile`.
26 * [[users/jasonblevins]]'s code plugin uses src-highlight, and supports both
27 while file and directive use.
31 * Using non-perl syntax highlighting backends is slow. I'd prefer either
32 using a perl module, or a multiple-backend solution that can use a perl
33 module as one option. (Or, if there's a great highlighter python module,
34 we could use an external plugin..)
35 * Currently no single plugin supports both modes of operation (directive
36 and whole source file to page).
38 > This is now fixed by the [[ikiwiki/directive/format]] directive for all
39 > whole-source-file plugins, right?
41 * Nothing seems to support
42 [[wiki-formatted_comments|wiki-formatted_comments_with_syntax_plugin]]
43 inside source files. Doing this probably means post-processing the
44 results of the highlighting engine, to find places where it's highlighted
45 comments, and then running them through the ikiwiki rendering pipeline.
46 This seems fairly doable with [[!cpan Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Kate]],
48 * The whole-file plugins tend to have a problem that things that look like
49 wikilinks in the source code get munged into links by ikiwiki, which can
50 have confusing results. Similar problem with preprocessor directives.
51 One approach that's also been requested for eg,
52 [[plugins/contrib/mediawiki]] is to allow controlling which linkification
53 types a page type can have on it.
55 > The previous two points seem to be related. One thought: instead of
56 > getting the source from the `content` parameter, the plugin could
57 > re-load the page source. That would stop directives/links from
58 > being processed in the source. As noted above, comments
59 > could then be parsed for directives/links later.
61 > Would it be worth adding a `nodirectives` option when registering
62 > an htmlize hook that switches off directive and link processing before
63 > generating the html for a page?
65 * The whole-file plugins all get confused if there is a `foo.c` and a `foo.h`.
66 This is trivially fixable now by passing the keepextension option when
67 registering the htmlize hooks, though.
68 * Whole-file plugins register a bunch of htmlize hooks. The wacky thing
69 about it is that, when creating a new page, you can then pick "c" or
70 "h" or "pl" etc from the dropdown that normally has "mdwn" etc in it.
71 Is this a bug, or a feature? (Even if a feature, plugins with many
72 extensions make the dropdown unusable.. One way to deal with that is have
73 a config setting that lists what extensions to offer highlighting for.
74 Most people won't need/want the dozens some engines support.)
75 * The per page highlighters can't handle creating wiki pages from
76 "Makefile", or other files without a significant extension.
77 Not clear how to fix this, as ikiwiki is very oriented toward file
78 extensions. The workaround is to use a directive on a wiki page, pulling
81 > I wonder how hard it would be to make a patch whereby a file with
82 > no `.` in the name, and a name that matches a filetype, and where
83 > that filetype was registered `keepextension`, then the file is just
84 > chosen as the appropriate type. This would allow `Makefile` to
89 diff --git a/IkiWiki.pm b/IkiWiki.pm
90 index 8d728c9..1bd46a9 100644
93 @@ -618,6 +618,8 @@ sub pagetype ($) {
95 if ($page =~ /\.([^.]+)$/) {
96 return $1 if exists $hooks{htmlize}{$1};
97 + } elsif ($hooks{htmlize}{$page}{keepextension}) {
105 Rather than making syntax highlight plugins have to provide a preprocessor
106 directive as well as handling whole source files, perhaps a generic format
107 directive could be used:
109 \[[!format pl """..."""]]
111 That would run the text through the pl htmlizer, from the syntax hightligh
112 plugin. OTOH, if "rst" were given, it would run the text through the rst
113 htmlizer. So, more generic, allows mixing different types of markup on one
114 page, as well as syntax highlighting. Does require specifying the type of
115 format, instead of allowing it to be guessed (which some syntax highlighters
116 can do). (This directive is now implemented..)
118 Hmm, this would also allow comments inside source files to have mdwn
119 embedded in them, without making the use of mdwn a special case, or needing
120 to postprocess the syntax highlighter output to find comments.
122 /* \[[!format mdwn """
124 This is a comment in my C file. You can use mdwn in here.
128 Note that this assumes that directives are expanded in source files.