Syntax Highlighting on GitHub

Monk in Exile david.bovill at gmail.com
Wed May 7 17:52:06 EDT 2014


Wouldn't it be lovely to have great syntax highlighting for LiveCode on
GitHub? So may languages listed and not Livecode? Digging around I found
out that the library GitHub uses is pygments:

   - http://pygments.org/#contribute
   - http://pygments.org/languages/

and to write a parser you need to grok:

   - http://pygments.org/docs/lexerdevelopment/

and the code is hosted here:

   - https://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/pygments-main

If we got LiveCode added as a language we'd not only have syntax
highlighting in gitHub but also Trac, and our own code snippets hosted
local our sites. Anyone written one of these things before?



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