> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant < > abonnaireserge...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I personally would be interested in any advancements you make with >> javascript, or any other improvements from the basic fossil ui. >> > > Me as well. If you extend the GoCo theme to include diff highlighting (a > list member posted an easy-to-use JS script for this), i will immediately > import it into my sites :). > > -- > ----- stephan beal
The biggest problem of getting highlighting to work in fossil is the problem of choice: it's not easy to pick one JavaScript higlighter from the many ones that are available. For me, the winner is called highlight.js [1] Its killer feature is language auto-detection (you don't need to specify explicitly "treat this code snippet as C/Python/diff/whatever and color it accordingly"). A minor mismatch is that fossil puts code snippets inside <pre> blocks, while higlight.js looks for code inside <pre><code> blocks. This is easily mitigated by manually patching the code of highlight.js, as consequence no fiddling with fossil's source is required at all. Achieving diff highlight becomes trivial, one needs to pick only the diff.js file from the available languages when creating the bundle containing needed languages for a project and the general higlight machinery itself. The bundle is a big piece of javascript that is inserted directly into the repo header. A color template is chosen as well (highlight.js has a lot of them, as CSS) and is inserted into repo's CSS code. This is enough to get colored diffs everywhere and also colors for source code files as well, if support for languages included in a project is bundled. 1. http://softwaremaniacs.org/soft/highlight/en/ _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
