Use the last used language for highlighting
Leonth - July 8, 2008 - 14:59
| Project: | GeSHi Filter for syntax highlighting |
| Version: | 6.x-1.1 |
| Component: | Filtering |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | minor |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
Currently when there is no "type" attribute in a tag, we can choose a default programming language for highlighting. Is it possible to let geshifilter choose the last language used in the input? For example,
<blockcode type="c">blockcode 1</blockcode>
<blockcode>blockcode 2</blockcode>
<blockcode>blockcode 3</blockcode>
<blockcode type="python">blockcode 4</blockcode>
<blockcode>blockcode 5</blockcode>Now blockcode 1, 2, and 3 are highlighted in C but blockcode 4 and 5 is highlighted in Python. This will save some time when you're typing lots of code snippets.
I have not looked into the code but I presume this will not be very complicated. If I have some time I might look into it and do a patch.
(I got the idea from \lstset{} of LaTeX)
#1
This is not possible with the current version.
Also, I'm note sure if it would be a good idea to implement this.
Introducing a sort of context to the code block filtering is tricky and could introduce a lot of confusion to the user.
For example, if you want blockcode 3 to be highlighted with the default (which is no highlighting in most cases), how would you achieve this when you have a "sticky" mode?
I think it's just better to be explicit than to be implicit,
The cost of typing the extra 'lang="python"' is not that big, I think
Moreover, if you are concerned about typing, why don't you just enable language tags instead of the generic ones so you can write:
[c]blockcode 1[/c][c]blockcode 2[/c]
[c]blockcode 3[/c]
[python]blockcode 4[/python]
[python]blockcode 5[/python]