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Pygments, a generic syntax highlighter

85 points by tilt 12y ago

drtse4 12y ago
A few years ago i've converted some popular vim color schemes (Twilight, Wombat, Mustang,etc...) to pygments css styles: https://github.com/uraimo/pygments-vimstyles https://github.com/uraimo/pygments-vimstyles
hk__2 12y ago
If anyone is writing Clojure, you can use Clygments [1], a bridge to Pygments I wrote a year ago [1]: https://github.com/bfontaine/clygments#clygments https://github.com/bfontaine/clygments#clygments
kasabali 12y ago
I use it as LESSPIPE and it's very nice. The only problem is it is slow, so you can't view longer files immediately as in regular less.
- the_mitsuhiko 12y ago
  > The only problem is it is slow, so you can't view longer files immediately as in regular less. For most lexers this could be fixed to be iterative. The lexers can do iterative processing, it's just that the command line tool does a horrible job at supporting that.
  - kasabali 12y ago
    I should check it out sometimes, then. Thanks.
Luyt 12y ago
Freenode #pocoo is also the channel were Flask users hang out.
jordigh 12y ago
Yay, a major project using hg instead of git. This makes it seem like my work on hg is still worth something (as are the pull requests I have sent to pygments). Btw, the next hg sprint will be at Pycon in Montréal! http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/3.4sprint http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/3.4sprint
- the_mitsuhiko 12y ago
  > Yay, a major project using hg instead of git. This makes it seem like my work on hg is still worth something (as are the pull requests I have sent to pygments). Mostly because nobody spend time to make the move. All other pocoo projects move to git (Flask, Werkzeug, Jinja2, Click, Sphinx, etc.).
  - jordigh 12y ago
    Aw. So you have no intent on staying with hg? I thought Georg Brandl was a big hg fan. :-( And hg is so cool! Templates! Revsets! Evolve! Extensibility! http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/customising-mercurial-like-a-pro/ http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/customising-mercurial-l... https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NSLvERZQSok#t=973 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NSLv... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OlDm3akbqg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OlDm3akbqg http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/x-men-in-mercurial-evolve/ http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/x-men-in-mercurial-evol...
    - DasIch 12y ago
      Whether or not hg is good or even better than git is pretty much irrelevant at this point. Github's popularity has made all other project hosting platforms irrelevant. Git's popularity means that every potential contributor knows how to use it, which significantly reduces friction for new ones.
      - jordigh 12y ago
        I don't buy the popularity argument. If I were to abandon software just because it wasn't as popular as the alternative, I would have to stop working on GNU Octave in favour of Matlab, and I would have to wipe GNU/Linux from my machines and just use Mac OS X or Windows. I understand that git transcends organisation, programming languages, and operating systems. I still don't want to be stuck to the git way of doing things, no matter how popular it is. Concessions have to be made for git users coming to hg, but there are some things that hg does that git just will probably never be able to. I may one day work on improving hgit, which is an hg front-end to a git storage backend proof-of-concept, but so far the hg-git workaround for git's popularity is good enough for most purposes.
StavrosK 12y ago
I switched to Pygments from a JS-based solution, and I highly recommend it. The parser is great and the resulting CSS and HTML are much cleaner.
- donatj 12y ago
  What is the js based solution?
  - StavrosK 12y ago
    It was this: http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/ http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/
thesz 12y ago
Agda highlighting is as uninteresting as it can be. It should be on par of the real Agda highlighting but it is not.
- fijal 12y ago
  How about you contribute this missing bit or improve it instead of whining on the internet? This is really a minor feature for pyglets (most people would use it for more mainstream stuff than Agda), so how about you take it over?
halosghost 12y ago
I love pygments, but I wish the C lexer were better and I wish it were written in C.
perlgeek 12y ago
Just the other day we added syntax hilighting to http://doc.perl6.org/ http://doc.perl6.org/ backed by pygments. Yay!
kornakiewicz 12y ago
I think that REST service for Pygments would be a nice thing for solutions that could not run python scripts directly.
- gpsarakis 12y ago
  Interestingly enough, there is one unofficial API http://pygments.appspot.com/ http://pygments.appspot.com/, but supports an outdated version (1.5).
moomin 12y ago
I used Pygments to power the syntax colouring of ulisse (https://github.com/JulianBirch/ulisse https://github.com/JulianBirch/ulisse) a Clojure documentation generator (specifically, a codox writer). Here's some example output: http://julianbirch.github.io/arianna/arianna.html http://julianbirch.github.io/arianna/arianna.html
xs 12y ago
Pygments for me has been easy to get working on my blog but extremely difficult and so far impossible for me to customize. My blog is Ruby based and so first of all I don't quite understand how a python program can be added as a ruby gem. Second, I really don't understand how to create my own lexer. Do I edit the Ruby gem? Do I need to create my own gem? If I edit the gem locally I may be able to do something but how do those edits get to Heroku? The task is much more complicated than I have the knowledge for.

85 points by tilt 12y ago

A few years ago i've converted some popular vim color schemes (Twilight, Wombat, Mustang,etc...) to pygments css styles: https://github.com/uraimo/pygments-vimstyles https://github.com/uraimo/pygments-vimstyles

hk__2 12y ago

If anyone is writing Clojure, you can use Clygments [1], a bridge to Pygments I wrote a year ago [1]: https://github.com/bfontaine/clygments#clygments https://github.com/bfontaine/clygments#clygments

kasabali 12y ago

I use it as LESSPIPE and it's very nice. The only problem is it is slow, so you can't view longer files immediately as in regular less.

the_mitsuhiko 12y ago
> The only problem is it is slow, so you can't view longer files immediately as in regular less. For most lexers this could be fixed to be iterative. The lexers can do iterative processing, it's just that the command line tool does a horrible job at supporting that.
- kasabali 12y ago
  I should check it out sometimes, then. Thanks.

Luyt 12y ago

Freenode #pocoo is also the channel were Flask users hang out.

jordigh 12y ago

Yay, a major project using hg instead of git. This makes it seem like my work on hg is still worth something (as are the pull requests I have sent to pygments). Btw, the next hg sprint will be at Pycon in Montréal! http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/3.4sprint http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/3.4sprint

the_mitsuhiko 12y ago
> Yay, a major project using hg instead of git. This makes it seem like my work on hg is still worth something (as are the pull requests I have sent to pygments). Mostly because nobody spend time to make the move. All other pocoo projects move to git (Flask, Werkzeug, Jinja2, Click, Sphinx, etc.).
- jordigh 12y ago
  Aw. So you have no intent on staying with hg? I thought Georg Brandl was a big hg fan. :-( And hg is so cool! Templates! Revsets! Evolve! Extensibility! http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/customising-mercurial-like-a-pro/ http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/customising-mercurial-l... https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NSLvERZQSok#t=973 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NSLv... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OlDm3akbqg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OlDm3akbqg http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/x-men-in-mercurial-evolve/ http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/x-men-in-mercurial-evol...
  - DasIch 12y ago
    Whether or not hg is good or even better than git is pretty much irrelevant at this point. Github's popularity has made all other project hosting platforms irrelevant. Git's popularity means that every potential contributor knows how to use it, which significantly reduces friction for new ones.
    - jordigh 12y ago
      I don't buy the popularity argument. If I were to abandon software just because it wasn't as popular as the alternative, I would have to stop working on GNU Octave in favour of Matlab, and I would have to wipe GNU/Linux from my machines and just use Mac OS X or Windows. I understand that git transcends organisation, programming languages, and operating systems. I still don't want to be stuck to the git way of doing things, no matter how popular it is. Concessions have to be made for git users coming to hg, but there are some things that hg does that git just will probably never be able to. I may one day work on improving hgit, which is an hg front-end to a git storage backend proof-of-concept, but so far the hg-git workaround for git's popularity is good enough for most purposes.

StavrosK 12y ago

I switched to Pygments from a JS-based solution, and I highly recommend it. The parser is great and the resulting CSS and HTML are much cleaner.

donatj 12y ago
What is the js based solution?
- StavrosK 12y ago
  It was this: http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/ http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/

thesz 12y ago

Agda highlighting is as uninteresting as it can be. It should be on par of the real Agda highlighting but it is not.

fijal 12y ago
How about you contribute this missing bit or improve it instead of whining on the internet? This is really a minor feature for pyglets (most people would use it for more mainstream stuff than Agda), so how about you take it over?

halosghost 12y ago

I love pygments, but I wish the C lexer were better and I wish it were written in C.

perlgeek 12y ago

Just the other day we added syntax hilighting to http://doc.perl6.org/ http://doc.perl6.org/ backed by pygments. Yay!

kornakiewicz 12y ago

I think that REST service for Pygments would be a nice thing for solutions that could not run python scripts directly.

gpsarakis 12y ago
Interestingly enough, there is one unofficial API http://pygments.appspot.com/ http://pygments.appspot.com/, but supports an outdated version (1.5).

moomin 12y ago

I used Pygments to power the syntax colouring of ulisse (https://github.com/JulianBirch/ulisse https://github.com/JulianBirch/ulisse) a Clojure documentation generator (specifically, a codox writer). Here's some example output: http://julianbirch.github.io/arianna/arianna.html http://julianbirch.github.io/arianna/arianna.html

xs 12y ago

Pygments for me has been easy to get working on my blog but extremely difficult and so far impossible for me to customize. My blog is Ruby based and so first of all I don't quite understand how a python program can be added as a ruby gem. Second, I really don't understand how to create my own lexer. Do I edit the Ruby gem? Do I need to create my own gem? If I edit the gem locally I may be able to do something but how do those edits get to Heroku? The task is much more complicated than I have the knowledge for.