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Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Added syntax highlight support for golang

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Pavan Kumar Sunkara <pavan.sss1991@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 7, 2014, 21:56 UTC
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The highlight project which is being used by gitweb supports this. I checked it before submitting the patch.

Thanks
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 3:24 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Pavan Kumar Sunkara <pavan.sss1991@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Golang is quickly becoming one of the major programming languages.
>>
>> This change switches on golang syntax highlight support by default
>> in gitweb rather than asking the users to do it using config files.
>
> Looks trivially harmless ;-)
>
> I haven't touched this part of our system, but the patch makes me
> wonder if there is a way for us to _ask_ the installed 'highlight'
> binary what languages it knows about.  This hash is used only in
> guess_file_syntax sub, and it may not be unreasonable to populate it
> lazily there, or at least generate this part by parsing output from
> 'highlight -p' at build-install time.
>
>> Signed-off-by: Pavan Kumar Sunkara <pavan.sss1991@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  gitweb/gitweb.perl |    2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
>> index bf7fd67..aa6fcfd 100755
>> --- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
>> +++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
>> @@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ our %highlight_basename = (
>>  our %highlight_ext = (
>>       # main extensions, defining name of syntax;
>>       # see files in /usr/share/highlight/langDefs/ directory
>> -     (map { $_ => $_ } qw(py rb java css js tex bib xml awk bat ini spec tcl sql)),
>> +     (map { $_ => $_ } qw(py rb java go css js tex bib xml awk bat ini spec tcl sql)),
>>       # alternate extensions, see /etc/highlight/filetypes.conf
>>       (map { $_ => 'c'   } qw(c h)),
>>       (map { $_ => 'sh'  } qw(sh bash zsh ksh)),
-- 
- Pavan Kumar Sunkara
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