Source code syntax highlight support in ovirt.org MediaWiki

[Vojtech Szocs]

Thanks Dave and Cing Garrett Lesage!

Vojtech


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Neary" <dneary at redhat.com>
> To: "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs at redhat.com>
> Cc: "infra" <infra at ovirt.org>, "Einav Cohen" <ecohen at redhat.com>, "garrett Lesage" <garrett at redhat.com>
> 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 at redhat.com>
> > To: "Dave Neary" <dneary at redhat.com>
> > Cc: "infra" <infra at ovirt.org>
> > 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/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi.git
> > [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 at redhat.com>
> > To: "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs at redhat.com>
> > Cc: "infra" <infra at ovirt.org>
> > 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
> >>
> > 
> 
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