This was the last thing keeping my tech blog at WordPress. Bravo!
Posterous adds markdown and syntax highlighting support
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#12I'm surprised they went with CodeRay rather than a more fleshed-out highlighting library. They only list 20 or so supported languages, whereas something like Pygments (which Github uses) supports closer to 100.
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#13Thank God! Their editor was horrendous for applying any kind of precise formatting.
I stopped using Posterous because of it, now I will happily be able to try it again!
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#14I'm surprised they went with CodeRay rather than a more fleshed-out highlighting library. They only list 20 or so supported languages, whereas something like Pygments (which Github uses) supports closer to 100.
So it's more the library they're using? I thought it was strange they support Delphi and Java but not C#.
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#15Wonderful! Every day, more and more reasons not to build my own blogging engine. One wee request? If you've got the inclination, Clojure's a language that's growing fast and is eminently useful: it might be useful to have a highlighting mode for it. Keep up the good work!
Second vote for Clojure, though a generic Liap dialect ought to get you halfway there.
The Lisp syntax-highlight category has been killed by lisppaste:
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#16I'm surprised they went with CodeRay rather than a more fleshed-out highlighting library. They only list 20 or so supported languages, whereas something like Pygments (which Github uses) supports closer to 100.
So it's more the library they're using? I thought it was strange they support Delphi and Java but not C#.
Yeah. Syntax highlighting plugins take effort to write for any highlighting library, so usually a major decision factor is the plugins already available.
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#17I was about to quit posterous for my technical blogs because of the bad code posting support, and then they come out with this. It's like they read my mind, and feedback.
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#18I didn't use Posterous because it lacked markdown support. Funny though, that a little over a year ago, "Gary Tan" (company rep) said the company wanted to implement this "soon".
http://getsatisfaction.com/posterous/topics/markdown_or_anot...
Better late than never, eh?
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#20I'm surprised they went with CodeRay rather than a more fleshed-out highlighting library. They only list 20 or so supported languages, whereas something like Pygments (which Github uses) supports closer to 100.
Truth is, I picked CodeRay for two reasons. It's fast and it's pure ruby. Pygments is great and I spent some time on a version that used it but CodeRay just fits better within our app. It's pure ruby, supports most languages I thought we should start with, it's extensible and has a roadmap for things that I could see our users asking for.