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[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / todo / syntax_highlighting.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/todo/syntax_highlighting.mdwn b/doc/todo/syntax_highlighting.mdwn
index 645dd56bcedf110e48f673e6dece38fac2373b04..d9a791c6f9e823695a9fe9eab768293894808bd3 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/todo/syntax_highlighting.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/syntax_highlighting.mdwn
@@ -7,22 +7,24 @@ pages, as well as doing syntax highlighting as a preprocessor directive
 
 ## The big list of possibilities
 
-* [[plugins/contrib/highlightcode]] uses [[cpan Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Kate]],
+* [[plugins/contrib/highlightcode]] uses [[!cpan Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Kate]],
   operates on whole source files only, has a few bugs (see
   [here](http://u32.net/Highlight_Code_Plugin/), and needs to be updated to
   support [[bugs/multiple_pages_with_same_name]].
-* [[cpan IkiWiki-Plugin-syntax]] only operates as a directive.
+* [[!cpan IkiWiki-Plugin-syntax]] only operates as a directive.
   Interestingly, it supports multiple highlighting backends, including Kate
   and Vim.
 * [[plugins/contrib/syntax]] only operates as a directive
   ([[not_on_source_code_files|automatic_use_of_syntax_plugin_on_source_code_files]]),
-  and uses [[cpan Text::VimColor]].
+  and uses [[!cpan Text::VimColor]].
 * [[plugins/contrib/sourcehighlight]] uses src-highlight, and operates on
   whole source files only. Needs to be updated to
   support [[bugs/multiple_pages_with_same_name]].
 * [[sourcecode|todo/automatic_use_of_syntax_plugin_on_source_code_files/discussion]]
   also uses src-highlight, and operates on whole source files.
   Updated to work with the fix for [[bugs/multiple_pages_with_same_name]].  Untested with files with no extension, e.g. `Makefile`.
+* [[users/jasonblevins]]'s code plugin uses src-highlight, and supports both
+  while file and directive use.
 
 ## General problems
 
@@ -41,7 +43,7 @@ pages, as well as doing syntax highlighting as a preprocessor directive
   inside source files. Doing this probably means post-processing the 
   results of the highlighting engine, to find places where it's highlighted
   comments, and then running them through the ikiwiki rendering pipeline.
-  This seems fairly doable with [[cpan Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Kate]],
+  This seems fairly doable with [[!cpan Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Kate]],
   at least.
 * The whole-file plugins tend to have a problem that things that look like
   wikilinks in the source code get munged into links by ikiwiki, which can
@@ -76,10 +78,27 @@ pages, as well as doing syntax highlighting as a preprocessor directive
   extensions. The workaround is to use a directive on a wiki page, pulling
   in the Makefile.
 
-  > I wonder how hard it would be to make a patch where by a file with
+  > I wonder how hard it would be to make a patch whereby a file with
   > no `.` in the name, and a name that matches a filetype, and where
   > that filetype was registered `keepextension`, then the file is just
-  > chosen as the appropriate type...
+  > chosen as the appropriate type.  This would allow `Makefile` to
+  > work.
+
+like this:
+
+    diff --git a/IkiWiki.pm b/IkiWiki.pm
+    index 8d728c9..1bd46a9 100644
+    --- a/IkiWiki.pm
+    +++ b/IkiWiki.pm
+    @@ -618,6 +618,8 @@ sub pagetype ($) {
+       
+       if ($page =~ /\.([^.]+)$/) {
+               return $1 if exists $hooks{htmlize}{$1};
+    +  } elsif ($hooks{htmlize}{$page}{keepextension}) {
+    +          return $page;
+       }
+       return;
+     }
 
 ## format directive