Extension:SyntaxHighlight vim

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SyntaxHighlight_vim Release status: beta
Implementation	Tag
Description	Syntax highlighting of text within <syntax> tags, with the use of vim
Author(s)	Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmasontalk
MediaWiki	1.6
License	No license specified
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What can this extension do?

This extension adds the `syntax' tag to present formatted source code.

Usage

On the wiki page, you can now use `syntax' elements:

<syntax>
<?php
    v = "string";    // sample initialization
?>
html text
<?
    echo v;         // end of php code
?>
</syntax>

Download instructions

Download the extension from the Subversion repository and save it into the extensions\SyntaxHighlight_vim of your wiki. If you have shell access to your server, you may do the following to download the extension:

cd extensions
svn co http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/SyntaxHighlight_vim

Installation

• Add this line to your LocalSettings.php right before $wgSitename:

require_once("extensions/SyntaxHighlight_vim/SyntaxHook.php");

• Open file extensions/SyntaxHighlight_vim/SyntaxHook.php and add below line at the beginning

require_once("Syntax.php");

• Make sure that your server has vim binary available. For example on CentOS do

yum install vim-common
yum install vim-enhanced

See also

Extension:SyntaxHighlight GeSHi