Wiki - syntax highlighting

[Celtic_Minstrel]

You can now apply syntax highlighting to code snippets on the wiki! This works for almost any language you can think of, including WML.

The syntax for this is:

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<syntaxhighlight lang="wml">
[some_tag]
    some_key=some_value
[/some_tag]
# etc etc
</syntaxhighlight>

Other likely values for lang='""

• wfl - Formula language, for example for formula= in Standard Unit Filters.
• fai - Also formula language, but for AI (the only difference from wfl is that it highlights additional built-in functions)
• lua - Self-explanatory - doesn't highlight Wesnoth API functions though
• cpp - C++ code

This is just the ones expected to be most commonly used on the wiki; there are many other supported languages.

Other options that can be added to the opening tag:

• line - Enable line numbering. This is a little buggy, though, as the line numbers are muddled up with the code.
• start="10" - Line numbering starts at the specified line (requires the above to be present too).
• highlight="1,2,5-9" - Highlight some lines to draw attention to them.
• inline - Use this to include a small snippet of code in the middle of running text.

[ancestral]

How about WML syntax highlighting for code in the forums?

[Celtic_Minstrel]

Shadowm (who's the one who set this up) said he wanted to upgrade the forum software before considering forum syntax highlighting. I'm also not sure if there's a Pygments-based syntax highlighting extension for phpBB — MediaWiki uses Pygments in its official syntax highlighting extension, and because of that, I chose it to write my WML syntax highlighter with.

So, basically... it's a thing that might happen, eventually, but there are things to be worked out first.