Friday, 10 October 2008

Blog syntax highlighting: SyntaxHighlighter

I've been wanting a Javascript based purely client-side syntax highlighting solution for a while. In the past, I've used Python to HTML scripts and other similar things.

SyntaxHighlighter looks pretty good.

import stackless
import traceback

def f():
    while 1:
        pass

stackless.tasklet(f)()

while stackless.runcount > 1:
    # If any tasklet runs for too long, kill it.
    t = stackless.run(100000)
    if t is not None:
        traceback.print_stack(t.frame)
        t.kill()
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3 comments:

  1. peterbeSaturday, October 11, 2008 12:54:00 am

    I tried this on an unpublished project and ended up going for the server-side alternative because it barfed on large source texts.

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  2. RichardSaturday, October 11, 2008 1:14:00 am

    That is mentioned as one of its limitations, that it uses regular expressions and with larger amounts of source code the javascript will timeout. I'm fine with that.

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  3. UnknownFriday, October 17, 2008 1:30:00 pm

    i like SyntaxHighlighter and i've also found another solution using the dojo toolkit - neonstalwart: alternative syntax highlightingl

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