Bug 328179

Summary:	[Feature Request] Syntax-highlighting should support all Markdown extensions supported by `pandoc`
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Kurt Pfeifle <kurt.pfeifle>
Component:	syntax	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Other
URL:	https://groups.google.com/d/msg/pandoc-discuss/LwB9rPczOLU/Rj3yg1a8CQwJ
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Description Kurt Pfeifle 2013-11-28 14:41:11 UTC

`pandoc` is a tool to convert Markdown text files to a smattering of "rich" document formats, including HTML, ODT, DOCX, DocBook, LaTeX, RTF, Beamer and many more.

pandoc can automatically add syntax highlighting to its output files (for example in code blocks which appear in the documents). For this it re-uses Kate's achievements in that area.

It would be nice if Kate's markdown.xml did not only support the original (minimal) Markdown syntax, but also all extensions which are supported by pandoc.

A description of all these extensions can be found here:

* http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/demo/example9/pandocs-markdown.html


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Christoph Cullmann 2016-01-31 16:41:32 UTC

Dear user,

this wish list item is now closed, as it wasn't touched in the last two years and no contributor stepped up to implement it.

The Kate/KTextEditor team is very small and we can just try to keep up with fixing bugs. Therefore wishs that show no activity for two years or more will be closed from now on to keep at least a bit overview about 'current' wishs of the users.

If you want your feature to be implemented, please step up to provide some patch for it. If you think it is really needed, you can reopen your request, but keep in mind, if no new good arguments are made and no people get attracted to help out to implement it, it will expire in two years again.

We have a nice website kate-editor.org that provides all the information needed to contribute, please make use of it. For highlighting improvements our user manual shows how to write syntax definition files.

Greetings
Christoph