skylighting mit Homebrew, apt installieren

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• skylighting

Projektgeschichte

John MacFarlane created Skylighting as the successor to highlighting-kate. The earlier design compiled KDE XML descriptions into individual Parsec parsers, making circular IncludeRules and dynamic syntax loading difficult. Skylighting instead parses descriptions into Haskell data structures interpreted by a tokenizer.

The project later split its core and rendering formats into separate packages, continuously synchronized syntax definitions from KDE, and added formats and languages as the upstream definition set evolved.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Skylighting is distributed as a family of Haskell packages and is closely associated with Pandoc’s document-rendering ecosystem. Its modular formatters support ANSI, HTML, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and Typst output, while the command-line executable makes the same engine usable in shell pipelines.

Wie es verwendet wird

Haskell programs use the library to select a syntax by name, extension, or filename, tokenize input, and render tokens through a formatter. The optional `skylighting` executable provides command-line highlighting, and users can dynamically load additional KDE XML definitions.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

The package is notable for replacing generated, compiled parsers with interpreted KDE syntax descriptions. That architecture supports dynamically loaded definitions, reduces problems with included rules, and lets Haskell applications reuse the large KDE grammar ecosystem.

Zeitleiste

• Initial design: Skylighting succeeded highlighting-kate with interpreted syntax descriptions and dynamic loading.
• 0.10: Syntax definitions were synchronized from KDE and contributors were directed to submit grammar changes upstream.
• 0.13: Output formatters were split into separate packages.
• 0.14 series: The project added further languages, Typst support, and continuing KDE definition updates.

Related projects

• highlighting-kate is Skylighting’s predecessor.
• KDE Syntax Highlighting supplies the XML definition format and upstream grammars.
• Pandoc shares maintainership and benefits from Skylighting’s Haskell-oriented architecture.
• Hackage distributes the library and generated API documentation.

Quellen

• https://github.com/jgm/skylighting
• https://github.com/jgm/skylighting/blob/master/changelog.md
• https://hackage.haskell.org/package/skylighting/docs/Skylighting.html
• https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/syntax-highlighting