colorize
Description
Colorize programming code as HTML (syntax highlighting).
Author
Brian Mastenbrook, ported to Chicken by Peter Bex
Repository
This egg is hosted on the CHICKEN Subversion repository:
https://anonymous@code.call-cc.org/svn/chicken-eggs/release/5/colorize
If you want to check out the source code repository of this egg and you are not familiar with Subversion, see this page.
Documentation
This extension is a port of lisppaste's colorizing code. It currently supports syntax highlighting for the following languages:
- Basic Lisp
- Scheme
- Emacs Lisp
- Common Lisp
- C
- C++
- Java
- Objective C
- Erlang
- Python
- Ruby
- Haskell
- Unified Context Diff
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Extensible Markup Language (XML)
- (Extensible) HyperText Markup Language ((X)HTML)
Colorizing procedures
- coloring-type-namesprocedure
Returns an alist of supported coloring types (recognised languages). The keys of this list are simple symbols which encode the internal name of the colorizer, the values of this list are human-readable strings describing the language.
- coloring-type-exists? nameprocedure
If you don't need to know the name of a coloring type, this is a faster way to check if a given coloring type exists. name is a symbol which encodes the internal name of the coloring type. If the coloring type with that name exists, #t is returned, #f otherwise.
- html-colorize coloring-type stringprocedure
Colorize the given string with the named coloring-type.
(use colorize) (html-colorize 'c "int main(void) {\n return 1;\n}") => "<span class=\"symbol\">int</span> main<span class=\"paren1\">(<span class=\"default\"><span class=\"symbol\">void</span></span>)</span> <span class=\"paren1\">{<span class=\"default\">\n <span class=\"symbol\">return</span> 1;\n</span>}</span>"
Helper procedures
- htmlize strprocedure
Escape characters from the string str to make it safe for embedding in HTML. This is just a helper procedure taken from Spiffy that could be useful when highlighting code offline or outside of Spiffy.
Used CSS classes
The HTML can be easily and extensively styled using CSS. The colorizers use the following classes:
- comment for comments
- character for character literals
- string for string literals
- variable for user variables that can be distinguished as such
- function for function definitions if they can be distinguished as such (currently only used by the Erlang and Haskell coloring-types)
- attribute for Erlang attributes
- macro for macros (Erlang only)
- atom for atoms (Erlang and Haskell only)
- special for "special" variables. These include preprocessor directives in C, *starred-global-identifiers* for Lisps etc
- symbol for symbols, identifiers, user variables that cannot be distinguished from regular symbols
- keyword for keyword types (actual keywords in Lisps, variables containing unusual characters in Haskell, etc)
- paren1 through paren6 to indicate parenthetical nesting level
- default to support displaying a different background of the code inside parens (for example to support mouse hover highlighting of matching parens)
- syntax-error for syntax errors detected during parsing (currently unused)
- diff-normal Lines of diff context without changes (Unified Diff only)
- diff-added Added lines (Unified Diff only)
- diff-deleted Deleted lines (Unified Diff only)
Changelog
- 0.5 - Fix accidentally quadratic code, improving performance greatly when colorizing large files, and export htmlize (fixes #1799, thanks to "curium")
- 0.4.5 - More bugfixes
- 0.4.4 - Bugfixes
- 0.4.3 - Ported to CHICKEN 5 (by felix)
- 0.4.2 - Fix tests by adding an explicit use clause for the utils unit which was being used by the tests.
- 0.4.1 - Fix tests by adding the test egg as a dependency.
- 0.4 - Do not rely on set!'s undefined return value. Add some basic tests and try to lower compilation time by making the macro expansions less bulky. Improve "keyword" detection in Scheme code. Add css and xml (with xhtml and html alias) colorizers. Remove dependency on defstruct.
- 0.3.1 - Fix a potential bug in colorize setter code (thanks to Felix)
- 0.3 - Fix a few bugs in the Lisp colorizer that didn't always trigger in lisppaste's colorizer because it processes strings a line at a time(?)
- 0.2.2 - More silly bugfixes
- 0.2.1 - Fixed stupid bug caused by 0.2 and added coloring-type-exists? predicate
- 0.2 - Ensured variables were not kept around in coloring type objects from previous invocations of html-colorize.
- 0.1 - Initial port
License
Copyright (c) 2010-2022 Peter Bex Copyright (c) 2003-2010 Brian Mastenbrook Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.