Re: [RFC/PATCH] gitweb: Syntax highlighting support

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 18, 2010, 22:01 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <20100217212855.2014.49834.stgit@localhost.localdomain>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> 
> It requires the 'highlight' program to do all the heavy-lifting:
> http://www.andre-simon.de / http://wiki.andre-simon.de

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> This is a RFC, because there exist other syntax highlighters that can
> function as filter (take input from STDIN, and write result to STDOUT),
> and have (X)HTML among supported output formats.  Beside 'highlight'
> by Andre Simon, there is also 'source-highlight' (GNU Source Highlight),
> and probably other programs.

Actually GNU Source Highlight (http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite) as it is now wouldn't be a good fit for gitweb, because it lacks equivalent of Highlight '--fragment' option; even with '--no-doc' it prefixes contents with some comments and wraps the whole with <pre><tt> tags.

On the other hand side one can also use Perl modules from CPAN for syntax highlighting. It would be nice to have this option for syntax highlighting in gitweb.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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