A colored year on the web for Eiffel

Happy new year!

ACE, Prism, and Rouge now support the syntax highlighting of the Eiffel language.

Prism

Prism is by-design a lightweight syntax highlighter for the web. It is very simple to use, and the download page enables to get only what you need. It proposes interesting add-ons (Line numbers, File Highlight, ...).

The library is usable with a bench of tools, including Wordpress and Jekyll.

You can test the highlighting here. The Eiffel support should be full, including the verbatim options.

If you note any issues, you can report it on my github fork.

I have commited a Pull Request to enable class name highlighting. Please feel free to express your support in the discussion thread of the Pull Request. The PR is waiitng for author agreement since January...

ACE editor

ACE Editor is certainly the most use web-based code editor. A bench of web applications use ACE including:

• the Github web editor
• the Cloud9 web IDE
• Code Combat, a game to learn programming basis
• and more

The support of Eiffel is not full. In particular, the verbatim options and multiple-line strings are not supported.

If you note any issues, you can report it on my github fork.

Rouge

Rouge is a recent syntax highlighter increasing in popularity.It is compatible with the stylesheets of Pygments.

It is used by:

• Gitlab
• krandown, a markdown parser (anoption must be enabled)
• RedCarpet, another markdown parser
• the static site builder Middleman

The support of Eiffel is not full. In particular, the verbatim options are not supported.

If you note any issues, you can report it on my github fork.

Other syntax highlighters

Some tools need updates in order to fully support the highlighting of Eiffel.For instance:

• Code Mirror, a web-based code editor
• Pygments
• TexMate, (used also by Github Linguist
• GeSHi

Enjoy ;)