Re: syntax highlighting of code in perlmonks forums

Even if I use syntax highlighting and like it very much, I don't think it is appropriate for code posted here.
First of all, some monks have said here that they do not like syntax highlight, so I guess you will find the first critics for your idea there.
And then there is the big question: which colorscheme should the monastery use? For example, the code you just posted is unreadable on my white background, and there are many different looks (or color themes) one can choose from the user preferences. You can even use your own stylesheet to define your own colors.
With so many choices for the colorscheme of the site, syntax highlight for the code posted seems like too much trouble to be worth. Besides, you can always d/l the code and open it in vim ;)

hope this helps,

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Re: Re: syntax highlighting of code in perlmonks forums by diotalevi (Canon) on Jun 10, 2003 at 12:30 UTC
Which now brings up the question - is there a vim mode for browsing PerlMonks that knows what to do with the d/l code links?	[reply]
Re^3: syntax highlighting of code in perlmonks forums by f00li5h (Chaplain) on Jan 06, 2007 at 11:32 UTC
You just have to tell your browser to open the particular content type (`text/plain` with gvim, or a g?vim? in a terminal emulator eg`xterm -e vim`. Opera will all you to do all manner of silly things with content types it doesn't know internally, such as passing the uri/downloaded version/filenames to another program etc... I'm pretty sure the only thing you could do at PM's side to help this is by allowing the user to select the `Content-Type` header sent with code downloads, allowing the user to specify a header of `text/x-vim`, or perhaps a type perlish, so windows users get it going to their perl editor instead of their regular text editor (which most likely defaults to notepad) `@_=qw; ask f00li5h to appear and remain for a moment of pretend better than a lifetime;;s;;@_[map hex,split'',B204316D8C2A4516DE];;y/05/os/&print;`	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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