[pmwiki-users] Wiki syntax highlighting

John Rankin john.rankin at affinity.co.nz
Wed Oct 10 17:16:17 CDT 2007


On Thursday, 11 October 2007 1:01 AM, pmwiki-users-request at pmichaud.com wrote:
>   7. Re: Wiki syntax highlighting (Gour)
>John Rankin <john.rankin at affinity.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know whether there is a FireFox extension 
>> that will cause the edit form textarea to display wiki 
>> markup in a different colour to the content text? 
>> 
>
>I am aware and tried with It's All text extension
>(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125) + using 
>vim syntax file
>(http://www.pmwiki.org/pmwiki/uploads/Cookbook/syntax-pmwiki.txt)
>
>mentioned in Pywe-Discuss page (
>http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Pywe-Discuss).
>
>I believe that by having the above Firefox extension - which enables
>one to use one's preferred editor (vim, emacs, notepad...:-) - the
>effort could be put in providing (better) syntax files for them (eg.
>the above one for vim is last updated on July 2nd 2004) 'cause ability
>to write in one's beloved editor is very useful feature of the
>wiki itself!
>
Ah! This looks very promising. I agree -- putting effort into
syntax files is the way to go, as it will then work with any
(pm)wiki. This is another reason to move to Creole markup, so
the syntax file will work with any Creole-compliant wiki.

-- 
JR
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John Rankin






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