Re: Code highlighting?

Personally i am in favour of something like this. BUT its not so straightforward, and there are legitimate issues such as load, and theme sensitive color schemes that need to be addressed for such an endeavour. Presumably we could use the HTML output form of Perltidy, but Perltidy is a known resource hog.

You should have a look through the PMD archives as this subject comes up fairly regularly and the comments made before will still be relevent now.

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Re^2: Code highlighting?
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Oct 06, 2004 at 18:56 UTC

theme sensitive color schemes that need to be addressed for such an endeavour...

This can be addressed by doing the coloring in CSS; post processing (using the Syntax::Highlight::Perl keywords for classes):

<code class="perl">print "Hello world...

Then everything is still black unless you have a style sheet with code.perl > .Directive { ... } etc. and each style could have its own code styles companion.

As much as I'd like to see it, it does seem like a big headache, it would mostly only improve readability of longer code, and even using the faster methods available, it would slow things down a bit.

Oh, and this node, already listed below by cchampion doesn't mention that Perl::Tidy is customizable with its "formatter" arg to perltidy() though it's difficult to use.

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