Hi guys, it would be great if MediaWiki that powers ovirt.org supported source code syntax highlighting. This would improve readability of wiki pages that include source code snippets in various languages or formats. I've created a Trac ticket for this: https://fedorahosted.org/ovirt/ticket/32 Thanks! Vojtech

Do you know if the GeSHi extension is well audited and popular?

Hi guys, it would be great if MediaWiki that powers ovirt.org supported source code syntax highlighting. This would improve readability of wiki pages that include source code snippets in various languages or formats. I've created a Trac ticket for this: https://fedorahosted.org/ovirt/ticket/32 Thanks! Vojtech

From: "Dave Neary" <dneary(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: "infra" <infra(a)ovirt.org&gt;, "Einav Cohen" <ecohen(a)redhat.com&gt;, "garrett Lesage" <garrett(a)redhat.com&gt; Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2013 11:34:52 AM Subject: Re: Fwd: Source code syntax highlight support in ovirt.org MediaWiki Hi, Cing Garrett Lesage, I know he has been working on a number of issues related to this recently. Cheers, Dave. On 07/08/2013 06:13 PM, Vojtech Szocs wrote: > Hi guys, > > sorry for nagging, is there any update/progress regarding > https://fedorahosted.org/ovirt/ticket/32 ? > > Source code syntax highlighting in oVirt wiki would greatly improve > readability of many wiki pages. > > Thanks, > Vojtech > > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- > From: "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs(a)redhat.com&gt; > To: "Dave Neary" <dneary(a)redhat.com&gt; > Cc: "infra" <infra(a)ovirt.org&gt; > Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 4:42:04 PM > Subject: Re: Source code syntax highlight support in ovirt.org MediaWiki > > Hi Dave, > >> Do you know if the GeSHi extension is well audited and popular? > > To me, SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi extension [1] seems to be quite popular (lots > of hits on Google and Stackoverflow), has "stable" release status and > supports MediaWiki 1.11.+ (ovirt.org currently runs 1.19.2). It also seems > to be alive with recent updates [2]. Turns out that Generic Syntax > Highlighter (GeSHi) [3] is one of most widely used highlighters out there. > > Another alternative is GoogleCodePrettify extension [4], newer than > SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi but with less features, plus it doesn't seem to be > too alive - latest update June 2012 [5]. Other similar extensions I found > are either beta or have limited MediaWiki version support (but maybe I > have missed something). > > So I'd personally vote for SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi, but any similar extension > would do as well. > > Thanks, > Vojtech > > [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi > [2] > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/SyntaxHighli... > [3] http://qbnz.com/highlighter/ > [4] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GoogleCodePrettify > [5] https://github.com/Undev/MediaWiki-GoogleCodePrettify/commits/ > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave Neary" <dneary(a)redhat.com&gt; > To: "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs(a)redhat.com&gt; > Cc: "infra" <infra(a)ovirt.org&gt; > Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 3:52:40 PM > Subject: Re: Source code syntax highlight support in ovirt.org MediaWiki > > Thanks Vojtech! I will look at this as soon as I get a chance > (definitely sometime in 2013!) > > Do you know if the GeSHi extension is well audited and popular? > > Thanks! > Dave. > > On 01/18/2013 03:39 PM, Vojtech Szocs wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> it would be great if MediaWiki that powers ovirt.org supported source code >> syntax highlighting. This would improve readability of wiki pages that >> include source code snippets in various languages or formats. >> >> I've created a Trac ticket for this: >> https://fedorahosted.org/ovirt/ticket/32 >> >> Thanks! >> Vojtech >> > -- Dave Neary - Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Ph: +33 9 50 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13