[PATCH] TODO: add an item for Python pygments

[Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>]

Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 01:59:53AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> > I had my reservations about relying on highlight.pm; and this
> > confirms them, unfortunately :<  Oh well...
> 
> I was also unable to find highlight.pm anywhere outside of Debian packages.
> 
> > I wonder if pygments or any other code highlighting packages are
> > more stable.  We'd need to use a pipe or socket to interact with
> > pygments or anything w/o Perl bindings.
> 
> I'd be quite happy to be able to use pygments!

Can you write the Python glue? :>

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Subject: [PATCH] TODO: add an item for Python pygments

Pygments seems to be a popular highlighter and widely available,
so we'll be providing support for that at some point...

Link: https://public-inbox.org/meta/20190926131836.GB10467@chatter.i7.local/
Link: https://public-inbox.org/meta/874l0zt7sd.fsf@alyssa.is/
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 TODO | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 93054bb3..566e0a40 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -115,3 +115,6 @@ all need to be considered for everything we introduce)
 
 * support searching based on `git-patch-id --stable` to improve
   bidirectional mapping of commits <=> emails
+
+* pygments support - via Python script similar to `git cat-file --batch'
+  to avoid startup penalty.  pygments.rb (Ruby) can be inspiration, too.