Re: [Docutils-users] Highlighting interactive REPL sessions.

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

On 2016-02-15, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
> How can I highlight interactive REPL sessions? Like:

>   bash# cd ~/sql
>   bash# mysql
>   Password:

>   [mariadb]> select 1;

> Among:

>   http://pygments.org/docs/lexers/

> I see possibility to use various:

>   .. code:: bash
>   .. code:: console
>   .. code:: pycon
>   .. code:: postgresql-console

The last one seems quite near to me...

> but even with Bash it only highlight "$" sign and think my "bash#" prompt as
> output...

> I see a way to add to "code" additional parameter (prompt regex):

>   http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#code

> and implement parser in pygments

This should work - maybe postgresql-console is a good starting point.
Look/ask the Pygments community for details.

With a new parser/lexer "repl-console", the rst syntax would be::

   .. code:: postgresql-console

      bash# cd ~/sql

As docutils calls the external Pygments for syntax highlight, this should be
available to Docutils if it works with Pygments.
There is no need to
>  make own directive


Günter