Re: [Codestriker-user] Syntax highlight (patch included)

[Nikita B. <el...@gm...>]

Hello, David!

On 6/25/07, David Sitsky <dav...@gm...> wrote:
> Can you do a comparison between Kate and webc++ on something a little
> smaller?  Say something with roughly 1000 SLOCs.  I'd be curious to
> see what the difference is.

I have an idea about using external program to do syntax highlight.

Probably we should not stuck to only one (webcpp or other) but provide
generic layer for use external highlighters. I think, we could use any
one that:
* builds css-formatted code by using <span class="style"> and closes
tags correctly;
* don't add any symbols other than escaped standard one (lt, gt, amp);
* can behave as line filter (get text from stdin and output it to stdout).

To add such highlighter support we need is to provide its description:
* program name and command line template;
* correspondence between file externsions and program's language names;
* description of header we should strip out from highlighter output;
* correspondence between program's styles and our styles.

In my Debian there are some tools that meet these requirements:
* highlight: http://www.andre-simon.de/doku/highlight/en/highlight.html
* GNU source-hightlight:
http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite/source-highlight.html
* Web C Plus Plus: http://webcpp.sourceforge.net

To allow usage of pure Perl highlighter (Kate engine) it seems to be a
good idea to name styles after its standard ones.

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