Re: Colorizing source code in Info manuals

[Arsen Arsenović]

"Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de> writes:

> Cecilio Pardo <cpardo@imayhem.com> writes:
>
>> As texinfo is not going to add features like color to the Info format,
>
> This could also be added in HTML Exports via Javascript-Libraries.

And without: (texinfo) Syntax Highlighting

>> I think maybe emacs could add some itself.
>>
>> For example, the Emacs Lisp Intro uses @smallexample blocks for
>> presenting lisp code. I modified makeinfo more or less successfully to
>> generate a file with the line numbers where these blocks start. With
>> this kind of information, emacs could fontify the source code.
>>
>> Does this sound good?
>
> That definitely sounds interesting!
>
> Could it also detect source blocks in *info* on the fly and then
> highlight the block like orgmode does it?

Instead of guesswork, the info format should be extended to contain the
language ID @example can take as an argument.

Really, the entire info format can be significantly better.  It is
currently a marked-up catfile.

IMO, it should be replaced with something that has a proper DOM.
-- 
Arsen Arsenović

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