[Vim-l] Meta tips

[John Beckett]

Olivier Teuliere wrote:
> I prefer not having syntax highlighting in the code rather 
> than ugly HTML directly in the source of the page, making
> it hard to update.

Agree. Particularly while we are still just starting to get the tips fixed.

> The code would then be converted on server side (calling an 
> external script), to get the syntax highlighting for the 
> given language.

FWIW there is a server-side tool for syntax highlighting but I imagine it
would have to be extended to support Vim. According to some reports, the
tool sometimes gives dodgy results. No idea if it's available here. For the
future:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Programming_language
s#New_formatting_tag

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi

John