highlight: New plugin supporting syntax highlighting of pretty much anything.

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / todo / automatic_use_of_syntax_plugin_on_source_code_files.mdwn

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-Wishlist: optionally use the [[plugins/contrib/syntax]] plugin automatically on source code files in the repository with recognized extensions or shebangs, and render them as though they consisted of an [[.mdwn|markdown]] page containing nothing but a single call to the syntax plugin with the file contents as the text argument and the recognized type as the type argument.
+[[Wishlist]]: optionally use the [[plugins/contrib/syntax]] plugin
+automatically on source code files in the repository with recognized
+extensions or shebangs, and render them as though they consisted of an
+[[.mdwn|ikiwiki/markdown]] page containing nothing but a single call to the syntax
+plugin with the file contents as the text argument and the recognized type
+as the type argument.
 
-Together with the ability to have [[wiki-formatted_comments|wiki-formatted_comments_with_syntax_plugin]], this would allow the use of ikiwiki for [[wikipedia literate programming]].
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+Together with the ability to have
+[[wiki-formatted_comments|wiki-formatted_comments_with_syntax_plugin]],
+this would allow the use of ikiwiki for [[!wikipedia literate programming]].
+
+* I have started something along these lines see [[plugins/contrib/sourcehighlight]].  For some reason I started with source-highlight [[DavidBremner]]
+
+* I wonder if this is similar to what you want: <http://iki.u32.net/setup/Highlight_Code_Plugin/>
+
+> The new [[plugins/highlight]] plugin is in ikiwiki core and supports
+> source code files natively. [[done]] --[[Joey]]