Writing a filter that will render markdown or highlight source code, the way GitHub does it, more or less. I find that my repos sometimes have "important" information in files other than README.md.
Gah, it sort of works. I don't want the line numbers., and it's wrapped in a pre tag, and a code tag (!?)... I guess I could fake it by adding extra closing and opening tags, and CSS to hide the line numbers? But I'm not liking this...
Oh ye Gods of Algorythms and Elegance, forgive me for I have sinned! This blog post shows how to have #cgit highlight source code and render Markdown. If you can read code, please don't click. If you host cgit, you might want to take a look?
https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2018-06-11_Highlighting_Code_and_Rendering_Markdown_for_cgit
@kensanata I see you caught the Python bug after all.
@deshipu The two existing source files were written in Python and I donโt have the urge to rewrite anything to Perl. There just wasnโt ever a reason use Python and I donโt think I would use it for a new project unless the library situation pushes me to do. But increasingly, it does... (like Mastodon.py)
@kensanata Any reason why you use sys.stdout.write() and not just print()?
@deshipu No reason except thatโs what the existing code used. I wondered myself. Just for symmetry because of the sys.stdin code?
@kensanata Personally I like to use the fileinput module โ it basically gives you what Perl has by default โ standard input or passed files. https://docs.python.org/2/library/fileinput.html
Also I hate typos! But that goes without saying, right?