highlight.js support

[Dave Thomas]

Before I spend a few hours on it, does anyone already have a highlight.js module for Elixir?

Dave

[Gustavo Brunoro]

I don't know about highlight.js, but pygments (http://pygments.org/) has an Elixir lexer and can generate HTML/CSS output.

2013/11/18 Dave Thomas <da...@pragprog.com>

Before I spend a few hours on it, does anyone already have a highlight.js module for Elixir?

Dave

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[Dave Thomas]

Yeah, but unfortunately I need this in-browser. 

[José Valim]

As a side-note, in case anyone is interested, the pygments parser really needs improving since the last updates were a long time ago. Github uses pygments and we can from time to time see Github failing to highlight the latest Elixir versions (sigils in particular come to mind).

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[Josh Adams]

Dave,

Did you ever find an in-browser highlighter that supported elixir, or write a language file for it?  I'm about to embark down the exact same path (or I'll just use vimdeck and like three different programs to manage one presentation, which will be an orchestration nightmare but I can pull it off)

[Josh Adams]

For the record, I went ahead and opened a pull request with decent elixir support here https://github.com/isagalaev/highlight.js/pull/317

I'd love a more representative sample of various edge cases, so I can check to see how well it handles them.  It's presently mostly a clone of the ruby language support, with minor support added for various bits.

Some nice-to-haves to make it actually good:

- A nice dense example code block with expected output

- A list of elixir lang keywords - right now it's just using the list of ruby keywords, which is obviously wrong but I didn't want to touch it until i had a known-good replacement

Things I know are missing/unrepresented presently:

- defrecord

- use

- alias

- <-

- ->

- fn

I'm going to start on a more elaborate example that includes those use cases and see what I can come up with.  I know they'll be necessary for me to present, so...

Also, since I'm running a three hour presentation through this (at least, that's the plan), it should be easy enough to find bugs as I go through it.

Thoughts?

[Josh Adams]

Spent a little more time on it, got it a bit nicer (though defrecord still needs work).  Also figured I'd provide a screenshot of the output :)

[Dave Thomas]

No, I took a different approach and went with Pygments.

The story is that I wanted to syntax highlight a lot of code in a long Keynote presentation. I wrote a trivial Sinatra server that would serve code fragments according to the path, and then used Keynote's web linking to embed to code in each page. Worked great, and the code in the presentation updated if I changed its on disk. But Keynote 6 no longer supports web linking...

Dave

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[Peter Minten]

This is awesome!

Are you planning on supporting doctest code blocks as well? The pygments
Elixir lexer knows about the "iex>" convention and is smart enough not
to highlight the output from iex.

On 12/02/2013 01:09 AM, Josh Adams wrote:
> Spent a little more time on it, got it a bit nicer (though defrecord still
> needs work). Also figured I'd provide a screenshot of the output :)
>

> <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-gECR5V5GQKk/UpvPofhQJEI/AAAAAAAANCc/pBx0lNk4Xx4/s1600/Screenshot+from+2013-12-01+18%3A07%3A50.png>

[Josh Adams]

I just need to add them to the example that's in the test page. Sending myself a reminder since I'm in a drive thru :)