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Development status
  
Active

Operating system
  
Cross-platform

Written in
  
PHP

Type
  
Syntax highlighting

GeSHi

Developer(s)
  
Nigel McNie, Benny Baumann

Stable release
  
1.0.8.12 / November 3, 2014; 2 years ago (2014-11-03)

GeSHi or Generic Syntax Highlighter is a free software library that allows syntax highlighting of source code for several markup and programming languages. The program is written in PHP and is bundled or available as an add-on in popular web-based applications, such as Dokuwiki, Drupal, Mambo, MediaWiki (see extension), phpBB and WikkaWiki. Wikipedia used GeSHi as its primary syntax highlighter until 2015.

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Features

Among its notable features:

  • Fully CSS-driven output
  • Supports about 220 markup and programming languages
  • Extensibility via custom language files
  • XHTML 1.1 and CSS Level 2 compliance
  • Auto-caps/noncaps of keywords
  • Line numbering
  • Word wrapping
  • Automatic generation of links to programming language documentation

    • History

    GeSHi was originally designed as a module to introduce syntax highlighting in the phpBB board system. Later, it was made to work without a phpBB as a stand-alone library.

    After a long time of inactivity the project was handed over to Benny Baumann on March 15, 2008.

    Software which utilises GeSHi to colour files

  • Observium
  • WebSVN
  • Dokuwiki
  • Net2ftp

    • Free GeSHi WebService

  • GeSHi WebService

    • References

    GeSHi Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA