David Bremner <[email protected]> wrote: > Eric Wong <[email protected]> writes: > > > It would be nice if the highlight API provided a way to reliably > > map filename extensions and shebangs to the language I'm > > highlighting. I'm currently parsing the filetypes.conf directly > > and it's a bit fragile: > > > > > > https://public-inbox.org/meta/36e311060dcf52bb41eed5f6a2cff38bbb2de006/s/?b=lib/PublicInbox/HlMod.pm#n31 > > > > ikiwiki has similar code to map filename extensions (but not shebangs). > > > > I know this is an upstream issue, but the GitLab.com CAPTCHA is > > an accessibility problem which prevents me from reporting > > directly to upstream. Thanks in advance for forwarding. > > Is there an appropriate underlying highlight C++ api? libhighlight-perl > is really just a thin wrapper on that.
AFAIK, not yet, but the CLI does it internally. So this wishlist item would also include providing the API for C++ users, too (I don't know C++, though).
