Pygments syntax highlighting for code blocks

[Qrbaker]

As the Crafty team is setting up our wiki some editors have requested Syntax highlighting.

I'm going to look into implementing this with Pygments. This may be a major change and might add significant overhead to the server.

to that end:

1. Would you be interested in having syntax highlighting in upstream?
2. Should this be a toggle, i.e. with a command-line flag?

[TrueBrain]

Honestly, I would think any syntax highlighter should be client-side javascript, which can optionally be loaded by the client. I am not sure why this should be done server-side?

(I do not know Pygments, so I have no clue how it implemented it :P)

[Qrbaker]

But yeah, highlight.js would work, too. I could see either.

[TrueBrain]

I would think syntax highlighting is only useful during editing, not prerendered? But I might be missing the use-case here .. could you explain a bit how this would be used? As in, where do those editors expect syntax highlighting exactly?

[TrueBrain]

But yeah, highlight.js would work, too. I could see either.

Wauw, that website hurt my eyes.

You could also consider a nice editor like https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/ instead of the textarea.

[Qrbaker]

I mean syntax editing for displaying code on the page itself, not in editing, actually. Some pages we are writing include code snippets. For an example, see this wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_(functional_programming)#An_example:_Maybe

[TrueBrain]

Ah, see, that is another use-case then I expected :D

Yeah, that belongs in wikitexthtml :)