D Online Presence

nick nick.atamas at gmail.com
Sun May 7 11:33:16 PDT 2006


Brad Anderson wrote:
> nick wrote:
>> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>>> "nick" <nick.atamas at gmail.com> wrote in message 
>>> news:e3jc1v$1cm6$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>>>> - desirable bonus: wiki should automatically highlight D code or
>>>> provide plugins such that a code highlighter may be written.
>>> PmWiki, which the DMedia site uses, does just that.  I'm not too 
>>> knowledgeable with wikis, but it seems really well done.  Also, looking at 
>>> the outputted HTML, it seems to use stylesheets and such, looks like modern 
>>> HTML. 
>> MoinMoin has come with high recommendations. There are already modules
>> for highlighting Java code. Furthermore, D is easy to parse, so it
>> should be quite easy to write a code highlighting module.
>>
>> Another good thing about MoinMoin is that Python code is much more
>> maintainable than PHP or Perl (MoinMoin uses Python).
> 
> Trac, used at http://www.dsource.org, has a MoinMoin wiki processor, and we
> have a D syntax highlighting wiki macro written by JCC7.  It's not as nice as
> MediaWiki from the standpoint of separating discussion and content into two
> separate areas of the wiki page, but it's still fairly functional.
> 
> BA

A D-highlighting module? Sounds fantastic!

You refer to MoinMoin as "fairly functional".
Do you think MediaWiki is a better option?



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