Syntax Highlighting

Question

Is it possible to enable syntax highlighting for most popular scripting languages in this context (python, lua, javascript) and bash for a faster understanding? In addition it would be nice to highlight ffmpeg arguments, but I don't know if this is possible at all...

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Yeah, it's enabled!

Based on this post: What is syntax highlighting and how does it work? we have to explicitly override the highlighting via html comment like:

<!-- language: lang-or-tag-here -->

    code goes here

python

<!-- language: lang-py -->

while True:
    n = raw_input("Please enter 'hello':")
    if n.strip() == 'hello':
        break

javascript

<!-- language: lang-js -->

var a = 3;
while( !(a < 0)){
    alert("hello");
    a--;
}

lua

<!-- language: lang-lua -->

local i = 1
while a[i] do
  print(a[i])
  i = i + 1
end

bash

<!-- language: lang-bash -->

ext=mp4
for f in /some/dir/*.$ext; do
    new=${f/%.$ext/-rotated.$ext};
    ffmpeg -i "$f" -vf transpose=2 -c:a copy -metadata:s:v rotate="" "$new"
done

Answer 1

Done.

Mods will still need to enable this on a per-tag basis, and I'm not completely certain that ffmpeg works as well as we'd like, but it has been enabled on the main site and meta.

Enjoy!

Answer 2

Yes, it is possible, however it requires a CM to turn it on.

Answer 3

Per discussion in the comments, here's my list of tools that should have their options added:

• avconv
• avidemux_cli
• ffmpeg
• ffmpeg2theora
• mkvmerge
• oggz-tools
• transcode

I can help with full listing for avconv, oggz, and ffmpeg2theora. I can also do some basic things with ffmpeg (but i try to stay away from that community, so if somebody else wants to take over that job i'll be more than happy). Other tools i have used sufficiently to be able to generate a list looking at man pages where necessary.

What format should the options be in? Are we looking for a list of every potential option or do we need information about their potential order/interaction as well?