X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/bb93fccf0690344aa77f9538a508959a6de09847..31826c8b975245efb8e578efa037a2ce5c088b83:/doc/todo/syntax_highlighting.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/syntax_highlighting.mdwn b/doc/todo/syntax_highlighting.mdwn index 3de3032b3..b5d083ba5 100644 --- a/doc/todo/syntax_highlighting.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/syntax_highlighting.mdwn @@ -7,16 +7,16 @@ 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]]. @@ -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=HEAD) 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 @@ -43,7 +48,7 @@ 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