Is there any elixir alternative to pygments ? I can’t find anything on hex. The core is obviously very easy to port, but the real work is in porting all the lexers. It’s probably very easy too, but tedious and repetitive, and to be properly done it probably requires at least a cursory knowledge of th…

Thanks, but I’ve already written my pure elixir version of pygments: [image] Makeup - A syntax highlighter for Elixir Announcing I’ve published the first version of my Makeup library. It’s a syntax highlighter for Elixir in the spirit of Pygments, Currently it…

An alternative is to copy what haskell has done. They’ve got a library that parses kate syntax XML highlighting files and generates lexers from them at compile time. The format of the XML files is quite simple, but most of the XML files are LGPL, which is probably too restrictive for most people. A…

Depending on your use case you could do what pygments.rb does: long running python processes to which you pipe your code you want to highlight.

Neat! Will have a look, thanks!

Is it possible to use the stack of Pygments? Simply porting it to Makeup?

I don’t understand. Are you asking if one can port the Lexers from Pygments to makeup?

Yep. See? You understand :slight_smile:

The obvious answer is that yes, you can port the lexers as long as you port the Python code to Elixir. The practical answer is: Yes, but you have to rewrite the weird Pygments’ state-machines into a grammar for a PEG parser (which is way simpler than the original state-machines. The crazy answer i…

Some Perl 6 guys tried Pygment yesterday and they mean it’s not very correct.

The elixir lexer had some problems too. I’ve corrected them in my implementation. Pygments in general is not a very good piece of software. The real killer feature of pygments is the enormous number of man-hours put into writing lexers for all those languages. The lexers themselves are not necessari…

How can someone invest so much into a project which is based on such weak bones?

Elixir alternative to pygments

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ShalokShalom August 17, 2017, 4:01pm 15

I guess this fundamentally supported by the huge Python community itself.