Re: Simple syntax coloring code

[cormullion@...]

Thanks for the helpful replies. Some useful pointers there for  
exploration.

What I wanted was to modify the version of Markdown I'm using (the  
excellent Lua version from Niklas Frykholm) so that any Lua code  
blocks are marked up with <span> tags according to their syntax. The  
place to insert the coloring code would be somewhere around here (line  
842):

-- Encode/escape certain characters inside Markdown code runs.
-- The point is that in code, these characters are literals,
-- and lose their special Markdown meanings.
function encode_code(s)
	s = s:gsub("%&", "&amp;")
	s = s:gsub("<", "&lt;")
	s = s:gsub(">", "&gt;")
	for k,v in pairs(escape_table) do
		s = s:gsub("%"..k, v)
	end
	return s
end

I've played with calling Vim, but  - as a newcomer - imagined that the  
necessary Lua code had already been written and would be better than  
trying to interact with other processes... I had also imagined that it  
would be simpler... :)

I'll investigate your scripts, Peter, but it will won't be immediately  
because I don't currently have the development tools (eg gcc)  
installed on this machine and so can only run pre-built binaries and  
Lua source files... :)

thanks!