From: bremner <bremner@web>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 22:21:31 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: note that highlight should be slightly easier to call from perl than source-highlight
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note that highlight should be slightly easier to call from perl than source-highlight
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diff --git a/doc/todo/syntax_highlighting.mdwn b/doc/todo/syntax_highlighting.mdwn
index 2bbaeedfa..81ba19bc8 100644
--- a/doc/todo/syntax_highlighting.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/syntax_highlighting.mdwn
@@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ releases the 5 or 6 language definitions he has running on his web site, it migh
   5 seconds, which isn't bad. And, it has a C++ library, which it
   seems likely perl bindings could be written for, to eliminate 
   even that overhead.
+  > [highlight](http://www.andre-simon.de) has similar features to source-highlight, and swig bindings
+  > that should make it trivial in principle to call from perl.  I like highlight a bit better because 
+  > it has a pass-through feature that I find very useful.  My memory is unfortunately a bit fuzzy as to how
+  > well the swig bindings work. [[DavidBremner]]
+
 
 * Engines that already support a wide variety of file types are of
   course preferred. If the engine doesn't support a particular type