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

[David S. <dav...@gm...>]

Hi Nikita,

> 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).

Sounds like an excellent idea.

> 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.

Agreed!  Thanks for looking into this, you'll make a lot of people happy!

Cheers,
David