On 28 February 2014 21:29, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 28 February 2014 21:26, Dan Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:

>> I'm sure this has been asked a number of times before. What is the easiest
>> thing that can be done so that when we click "edit" we see the Mediawiki
>> code highlighted in different colors and various other settings instead of
>> it being plain text?
>> This one, is for computer languages, so its not what I'm looking for:
>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi

> It'd be a darn fine thing. I suspect we'll need a fully working
> parsoid/VE (which actually parse this stuff properly) first ... but
> users might baulk at 15 sec to syntax-colour a complex wiki page, even
> if that is a tremendous improvement on the previous 60sec.


Oh, good Lord, SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi doesn't parse MediaWiki but it
*does* parse Brainfuck. Mind you, BF's probably simpler.


- d.

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