Minimalistic Syntax Highlighter plug-in which also makes sure code can still be copied and pasted into your favourite compiler!
This plug-in is totally designed for developers.
You know, that sort of people who post code snippets in their blog regularly and hardly use the Visual Editor,
because they write the HTML themselves. But they don't like WordPress messing with their quotes and dashes,
so this plug-in makes sure no one touches one of their lovingly crafted lines of code.
It's also very minimalistic - less than 10k, not counting the GeSHi syntax highlighting library which is also included.
In addition, it's also lazy. It will try to avoid doing as much work as possible.
That is good, because it will not eat resources like other plug-ins out there.
Which languages are supported?
This plug-in can beautify snippets in pretty much every programming language you can think of, thanks to the huge language support provided by GeSHi (the highlighting library).
These are the available languages: 4cs, 6502acme, 6502kickass, 6502tasm, 68000devpac, abap, actionscript, actionscript3, ada, algol68, apache, applescript, apt sources, asm, asp, autoconf, autohotkey, autoit, avisynth, awk, bash, basic4gl, bf, bibtex, blitzbasic, bnf, boo, c, caddcl, cadlisp, cfdg, cfm, chaiscript, cil, clojure, c_mac, cmake, cobol, cpp, cpp-qt, csharp, css, cuesheet, d, dcs, delphi, diff, div, dos, dot, e, eiffel, email, erlang, f1, fo, fortran, freebasic, fsharp, gambas, gdb, genero, genie, gettext, glsl, gml, gnuplot, go, groovy, gwbasic, haskell, hicest, hq9plus, html4strict, icon, idl, ini, inno, intercal, io, j, java, java5, javascript, kixtart, klonec, klonecpp, latex, lb, lisp, locobasic, logtalk, lolcode, lotusformulas, lotusscript, lscript, lsl2, lua, m68k, magiksf, make, mapbasic, matlab, mirc, mmix, modula2, modula3, mpasm, mxml, mysql, newlisp, nsis, oberon2, objc, objeck, ocaml, ocaml-brief, oobas, oracle8, oracle11, oxygene, oz, pascal, pcre, per, perl, perl6, pf, php, php-brief, pic16, pike, pixelbender, plsql, postgresql, povray, powerbuilder, powershell, progress, prolog, properties, providex, purebasic, python, q, qbasic, rails, rebol, reg, robots, rpmspec, rsplus, ruby, sas, scala, scheme, scilab, sdlbasic, smalltalk, smarty, sql, systemverilog, tcl, teraterm, text, thinbasic, tsql, typoscript, unicon, vala, vb, vbnet, verilog, vhdl, vim, visualfoxpro, visualprolog, whitespace, whois, winbatch, xbasic, xml, xorg_conf, xpp, z80, zxbasic.
When entering the lang attribute in the code blocks, make sure the value you enter is exactly one of the languages in the list, or the highlighting will resort to a simple preformatted text.
If you still require syntax highlighting for a language which is not in this list, you’ll have to develop your own language file. What about submitting it to GeSHi when you’re done? 🙂
Is there any configuration panel or settings for the plug-in?
Not right now, but it’s on the to-do list. However, don’t expect to be able to modify tons of settings. This is all about minimalism!
Can I use the Visual Editor to enter code?
My tests prove otherwise. You’ll need to use the HTML view. At least by now.
Features that other plug-ins have but are entirely unsupported/missing for the time being
- Ability to use [code][/code] tags instead of ““ tags (would solve problems with the Visual Editor and the code tags)
- Ability to show line numbers
- Ability to have nested
<code> blocks
Planned features
Add options for…
- configuring if you want to use my css sheet, your css sheet, both, or no one at all
- configuring if you want to use GeSHi, or are happy with just plain preformatted text
- configuring if you want to allow commenters to post syntax highlighted code snippets
