Code highlight

[antoniogamiz]

Currently there is not code highlighting, so I will add the same process used at perl6/doc.

[JJ]

I am not sure we want this also to be in this module... It might be a bit too much.
There are also issues with highlighting: perl6/doc#1430, for instance.

[antoniogamiz]

I am aware of this problems and I tried to use https://highlightjs.org/, but it only has support for Perl. The results are quite good and it only needs to include some lines in template/head.html.

So we can either contribute to highlightjs with a Perl6 support (if we use highlightjs the perl6/doc#1430 issue would be solved) or we can leave this.

If this is not the place for that code, where do you think it should be placed? I remind you that atom-perl6 needs to be configured through a dynamic variable before calling Pod::To::HTML.

[JJ]

Maybe a new htmlify binary in a Perl6::Htmlify module...

[antoniogamiz]

What do you think about Linguist. It's the used by GitHub and has perl6 support.

[JJ]

Linguist identifies languages, but does not highlight, I think. El dom., 7 jul. 2019 a las 20:28, Antonio (<notifications@github.com>) escribió:

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What do you think about Linguist <https://github.com/github/linguist>. It's the used by GitHub and has perl6 support <https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/languages.yml#L3719> . — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#31?email_source=notifications&email_token=AAAAD5GJDASQTQM7YORMKG3P6IYTTA5CNFSM4H6V2CC2YY3PNVWWK3TUL52HS4DFVREXG43VMVBW63LNMVXHJKTDN5WW2ZLOORPWSZGODZLQVBY#issuecomment-509020807>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAAAD5CA7RCTCUGLI7YWWA3P6IYTTANCNFSM4H6V2CCQ> .

-- JJ

[antoniogamiz]

Mmm, but it is not that tool but it has to be something because GitHub hightlights the perl6 code.

[antoniogamiz]

Oh, it uses atom-perl6-language too => https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/vendor/README.md

[JJ]

it uses it to identify perl 6, but not to highlight it. Since highlighters have regexes that are peculiar to the language, it's one of the heuristics it uses to identify language. linguist is the program that's invoked in every repo to compute the bar above that says the languages it's using.