Gitea: Syntax Highlighting

[hughesjs]

I only develop in C# so it might not be the same for all languages. However, it appears to myself, and those within my team that the syntax highlighting is very lacklustre and not really useful for much.

Could we consider moving towards a better syntax highlighting library?

[andreynering]

Sorry for taking so much time to respond...

Can you give us an example? Maybe a C# file example and a screenshot.

[ShalokShalom]

This seems related: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/2994

[Depau]

I'll add myself here as I'm noticing Kotlin is not supported.

[ShalokShalom]

Syntax highlighting is still a heavy issue in Gitea as it seems. Is it suitable to put some focus on this?
It seems a critical part of the whole experience to me. Thanks :)

[hughesjs]

Chroma looks promising... https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma

[ShalokShalom]

Looks good :+1:

[hughesjs]

I'm a C# guy and don't have time to be delving into Go right now but if nobody has taken this up in a few weeks I'll have a crack

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[ShalokShalom]

I think this could be considered as something fundamental.

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[Stegosawr]

Syntax highlighting for ABAP is not working correctly too. Would be very nice if that would change. I attached a example file.

(Sorry that the comments are in german, but I think you'll get the point)

[ShalokShalom]

Could we set a bounty on https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma

[Stegosawr]

Created a Issue on Chroma.

Update:
Someone said he's working on it :)

[Stegosawr]

Chroma now has ABAP support. Thanks for everyones help.

[ShalokShalom]

Yeah, just Chroma isnt implemented in Gitea yet?

[lunny]

@ShalokShalom not yet.

[ShalokShalom]

Thanks a lot. So it seems you consider it as an option? Is it already on some plan?

[FunctionalHacker]

Has anyone considered tree-sitter?

[MaryWeeb]

An alternative many websites use is Highlight.js

[ShalokShalom]

So far as I know is Go prefered.

[jolheiser]

An alternative many websites use is Highlight.js

This is what Gitea currently uses.

[MaryWeeb]

Huh, I'm not seeing any highlighting at all on my repos

[GitMensch]

I think this can be closed in favor of #7729, couldn't it?

[lunny]

Closed by #12047