Syntax and the common man

Elixir Stacks
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So, I just bought the Foundry plugins, and basically they’re amazing, but I had a question about the Syntax plugin - I was trying to use it to show some commandline use, and its colour choices for rendering the text are … unique. I couldn’t see any obvious way to alter the rendering engine, any regexp or what-have-you, so how do I change it ?

The text:

./configure —prefix=/opt/asic —with-tk=/opt/local —with-tcl=/opt/local
make
make install

renders as:

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I kind of like how it’s trying to pull out ‘syntax’ from the text, but I’d like to change how it’s pulling out those different colours, they’re a bit … arbitrary … for my taste at the moment :slight_smile:

Cheers

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There is unfortunately not a way to define what gets colored or not or what is emphasized, etc like you’re hoping to do. The syntax highlighting is handled by Google’s Prettify syntax highlighting library.

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Thanks for getting back so quickly :slight_smile: I guess I was trying to shoe-horn ‘syntax’ into doing something it wasn’t intended for, so fair-enough. I can get pretty much what I want with an HTML-text pre/pre combination anyway.

Thanks again :slight_smile:

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