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