I'd like to have a good syntax highlighter for my WordPress blog. What options do I have available? I often see one which has well-colored syntax highlighting and options to copy to the clipboard. Does anyone have an idea what tool this is?
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Here is an offline option (I know you are asking about online tool but just in case ...)
I use offline tools to process the blog entry with source code examples into html format and then just post the html.
It's really just:
- offset source code by at least 4
spaces and specify language on the
first line like
:::html - run your file through:
python script:
import markdown
html = markdown.markdown(text,['codehilite'])
I setup markdown with pygments probably you could just use pygments for source code. You run the file thought the script and then copy paste the html to your blog.
You can dump css style, to highlight syntax, from pygments and then either link to it or include it in your page. I'm not sure if wordpress supports that.
Here is how to setup markdown with pygments to do syntax highlighting (for Blogger - the only specifics for Blogger is that it updates the Blogger css with the css to highlight code).
It now supports SyntaxHighlighter Code blocks.
Although it's a little inconvenient that languages must be chosen in the aside settings.
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