Comments on: Highlighting code on WordPress http://www.mailund.dk/index.php/2009/01/20/highlighting-code-on-wordpress/ Computer science, bioinformatics, genetics, and everything in between Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:35:39 +0200 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Thomas Mailund http://www.mailund.dk/index.php/2009/01/20/highlighting-code-on-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-2348 Thomas Mailund Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:41:24 +0000 http://www.mailund.dk/?p=701#comment-2348 Thomas: I don't think it is necessary to do any parsing of the C++ to highlight it. I agree that parsing templates is non-trivial, but not that it is needed at all for this. I wrote my own highlighter (as a GTK+ widget) many years ago, and I never needed more than a bit of regexp matching for comments and strings and simple word recognition for keywords. As for the FAQ item, I appreciate the link, but I am not really confused by that particular problem any more, having run into it more than once in the past :) It <em>is</em> one of the more confusing errors to run into, though, similar to the typename issue I wrote about a few days ago. Thomas:

I don’t think it is necessary to do any parsing of the C++ to highlight it. I agree that parsing templates is non-trivial, but not that it is needed at all for this.

I wrote my own highlighter (as a GTK+ widget) many years ago, and I never needed more than a bit of regexp matching for comments and strings and simple word recognition for keywords.

As for the FAQ item, I appreciate the link, but I am not really confused by that particular problem any more, having run into it more than once in the past :)

It is one of the more confusing errors to run into, though, similar to the typename issue I wrote about a few days ago.

]]> By: Thomas Jahns http://www.mailund.dk/index.php/2009/01/20/highlighting-code-on-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-2343 Thomas Jahns Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:08:44 +0000 http://www.mailund.dk/?p=701#comment-2343 That's simply because C++ template syntax is very complicated and non-trivial to parse. Everytime someone here is stumped by his or her inability to understand what the compiler is trying to tell him or her, I advise them to have a look at the C++ FQA, e.g.: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/ctors.html#fqa-10.19 That doesn't necessarily make people better at programming in C++, but at least potentially happier and less confused programmers when it comes to reasonable expections of what C++ can do for them. That’s simply because C++ template syntax is very complicated and non-trivial to parse. Everytime someone here is stumped by his or her inability to understand what the compiler is trying to tell him or her, I advise them to have a look at the C++ FQA, e.g.:

http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/ctors.html#fqa-10.19

That doesn’t necessarily make people better at programming in C++, but at least potentially happier and less confused programmers when it comes to reasonable expections of what C++ can do for them.

]]> By: Thomas Mailund http://www.mailund.dk/index.php/2009/01/20/highlighting-code-on-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-2300 Thomas Mailund Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:24:37 +0000 http://www.mailund.dk/?p=701#comment-2300 I might be able to. I don't know. By the time I got to google syntax highlighter I was sufficiently pissed off that I didn't bother trying to fiddle with it, but just moved on to the next plug in ... I might be able to. I don’t know. By the time I got to google syntax highlighter I was sufficiently pissed off that I didn’t bother trying to fiddle with it, but just moved on to the next plug in …

]]> By: Anders http://www.mailund.dk/index.php/2009/01/20/highlighting-code-on-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-2298 Anders Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:54:57 +0000 http://www.mailund.dk/?p=701#comment-2298 Are you sure you can't modify the css for the google syntax highlighter, to make it look a way you like? Are you sure you can’t modify the css for the google syntax highlighter, to make it look a way you like?

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