Pygments, a generic syntax highlighter

by tilt • 11 years ago

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drtse4• 11 years ago

A few years ago i've converted some popular vim color schemes (Twilight, Wombat, Mustang,etc...) to pygments css styles: https://github.com/uraimo/pygments-vimstyles

hk__2• 11 years ago

If anyone is writing Clojure, you can use Clygments [1], a bridge to Pygments I wrote a year ago

[1] https://github.com/bfontaine/clygments#clygments

kasabali2• 11 years ago

I use it as LESSPIPE and it's very nice. The only problem is it is slow, so you can't view longer files immediately as in regular less.

the_mitsuhiko4• 11 years ago

The only problem is it is slow, so you can't view longer files immediately as in regular less.

For most lexers this could be fixed to be iterative. The lexers can do iterative processing, it's just that the command line tool does a horrible job at supporting that.

kasabali2• 11 years ago

I should check it out sometimes, then. Thanks.

Luyt• 11 years ago

Freenode #pocoo is also the channel were Flask users hang out.

jordigh6• 11 years ago

Yay, a major project using hg instead of git. This makes it seem like my work on hg is still worth something (as are the pull requests I have sent to pygments).

Btw, the next hg sprint will be at Pycon in Montréal!

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/3.4sprint

the_mitsuhiko4• 11 years ago

Yay, a major project using hg instead of git. This makes it seem like my work on hg is still worth something (as are the pull requests I have sent to pygments).

Mostly because nobody spend time to make the move. All other pocoo projects move to git (Flask, Werkzeug, Jinja2, Click, Sphinx, etc.).

jordigh6• 11 years ago

Aw. So you have no intent on staying with hg? I thought Georg Brandl was a big hg fan. :-(

And hg is so cool! Templates! Revsets! Evolve! Extensibility!

http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/customising-mercurial-l...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NSLv...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OlDm3akbqg

http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/x-men-in-mercurial-evol...

maccard• 11 years ago

Mozilla still uses hg for their source control

jordigh6• 11 years ago

As does Facebook, Google, and Python and a few not as big players. I've also heard rumours that the Facebook devs are trying to help other big companies move slow, gigantic git repos to faster gigantic hg repos.

Still, it's a bit hard for me to keep my chin up over hg when everyone seems to think that git is the ultimate word on DVCSes with no room for dissenting software. It warms my heart whenever I see another project using hg for real and not half-heartedly like Golang was doing... and now they're using git half-heartedly, oh well.

StavrosK2• 11 years ago

I switched to Pygments from a JS-based solution, and I highly recommend it. The parser is great and the resulting CSS and HTML are much cleaner.

donatj• 11 years ago

What is the js based solution?

StavrosK2• 11 years ago

It was this: http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/

thesz• 11 years ago

Agda highlighting is as uninteresting as it can be.

It should be on par of the real Agda highlighting but it is not.

fijal• 11 years ago

How about you contribute this missing bit or improve it instead of whining on the internet? This is really a minor feature for pyglets (most people would use it for more mainstream stuff than Agda), so how about you take it over?

halosghost• 11 years ago

I love pygments, but I wish the C lexer were better and I wish it were written in C.

perlgeek• 11 years ago

Just the other day we added syntax hilighting to http://doc.perl6.org/ backed by pygments. Yay!

kornakiewicz• 11 years ago

I think that REST service for Pygments would be a nice thing for solutions that could not run python scripts directly.

gpsarakis• 11 years ago

Interestingly enough, there is one unofficial API http://pygments.appspot.com/, but supports an outdated version (1.5).

moomin• 11 years ago

I used Pygments to power the syntax colouring of ulisse (https://github.com/JulianBirch/ulisse) a Clojure documentation generator (specifically, a codox writer).

Here's some example output: http://julianbirch.github.io/arianna/arianna.html

xs• 11 years ago

Pygments for me has been easy to get working on my blog but extremely difficult and so far impossible for me to customize. My blog is Ruby based and so first of all I don't quite understand how a python program can be added as a ruby gem. Second, I really don't understand how to create my own lexer. Do I edit the Ruby gem? Do I need to create my own gem? If I edit the gem locally I may be able to do something but how do those edits get to Heroku? The task is much more complicated than I have the knowledge for.

Pygments, a generic syntax highlighter

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