gurugeek / colorize

A Syntax Highlighting library

colorize

colorize is a lisp library for syntax highlighting supporting the following languages:

• Common Lisp, :common-lisp
• Emacs Lisp, :elisp
• Scheme, :scheme
• Clojure, :clojure alpha
• C, :c
• C++, :c++
• Java, :java
• Python, :python
• Erlang, :erlang
• Haskell, :haskell
• Objective-C, :objective-c
• Diff, :diff
• Webkit, :webkit

Install

You are strongly encouraged to use this library via Quicklisp. Simply start your lisp and run: (ql:quickload 'colorize).

Getting Started

The API has three main entry points:

1. COLORIZE-FILE which takes a language keyword and input file and writes the result to an html file in the same directory. An alternate path for the output file may be provided as a third argument.
2. COLORIZE-FILE-TO-STREAM takes a keyword indicating the language, the path of a file to color, and a stream to write the result to. By default, it writes a complete self-contained page but if the :wrap keyword is given nil it only writes the colorized code snippet.
3. HTML-COLORIZATION takes a keyword indicating the language and a string of code and returns the colorized html.

In addition, the COLORING-TYPES function takes no arguments and returns a list of the supported coloring types as keywords. Finally, the variable COLORING-CSS returns suggested css code for highlighting the produced html.

That's all for now. And remember, patches welcome!