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| author | Joey Hess <joey@kodama.kitenet.net> | 2008-10-26 19:58:40 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kodama.kitenet.net> | 2008-10-26 19:58:40 -0400 |
| commit | a4ddf1e5041ac76e57fb61df687217b491c32e75 (patch) | |
| tree | e8cd568aad4e411c0536be1e6284a3ea8646a865 /doc/todo/syntax_highlighting.mdwn | |
| parent | 65bf71d387ba406d4fcf697d76151b6953176cf8 (diff) | |
| download | ikiwiki-a4ddf1e5041ac76e57fb61df687217b491c32e75.tar ikiwiki-a4ddf1e5041ac76e57fb61df687217b491c32e75.tar.gz | |
further thoughts
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diff --git a/doc/todo/syntax_highlighting.mdwn b/doc/todo/syntax_highlighting.mdwn index e992cc514..fec3f963f 100644 --- a/doc/todo/syntax_highlighting.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/syntax_highlighting.mdwn @@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ General problems: * Using non-perl syntax highlighting backends is slow. I'd prefer either using a perl module, or a multiple-backend solution that can use a perl - module as one option. + module as one option. (Or, if there's a great highlighter python module, + we could use an external plugin..) * Currently no single plugin supports both modes of operation (directive and whole source file to page). * Nothing seems to support @@ -41,6 +42,9 @@ General problems: * The whole-file plugins tend to have a problem that things that look like wikilinks in the source code get munged into links by ikiwiki, which can have confusing results. Similar problem with preprocessor directives. + One approach that's also been requested for eg, + [[plugins/contrib/mediawiki]] is to allow controlling which linkification + types a page type can have on it. * The whole-file plugins all get confused if there is a `foo.c` and a `foo.h`. This is trivially fixable now by passing the keepextension option when registering the htmlize hooks, though. @@ -48,7 +52,11 @@ General problems: about it is that, when creating a new page, you can then pick "c" or "h" or "pl" etc from the dropdown that normally has "mdwn" etc in it. Is this a bug, or a feature? (Even if a feature, plugins with many - extensions make the dropdown unusable..) -* The per page highlighters can't handle "Makefile", or other files - without a significant extension. -* + extensions make the dropdown unusable.. One way to deal with that is have + a config setting that lists what extensions to offer highlighting for. + Most people won't need/want the dozens some engines support.) +* The per page highlighters can't handle creating wiki pages from + "Makefile", or other files without a significant extension. + Not clear how to fix this, as ikiwiki is very oriented toward file + extensions. The workaround is to use a directive on a wiki page, pulling + in the Makefile. |