Highlight Changelog

What's new in Highlight 4.10

Dec 29, 2023
  • Updated astyle lib to version 3.4.10

New in Highlight 4.9 (Dec 29, 2023)

  • Updated astyle lib to version 3.4.9
  • Added support for Elm (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/237)
  • Added support for Factor (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/239)
  • Added support for Cpp2
  • Updated c.lang to include module keywords
  • Fixed Lua nested string deprecation error (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/238)

New in Highlight 4.8 (Dec 29, 2023)

  • Updated astyle lib to version 3.4.6
  • Moved old yaml.lang to yaml-ansible.lang and added a new yaml definition (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/235)
  • Omit size property in BBCode output if `--fragment` is set (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/234)
  • Allowed font size unit with `--font-size` for HTML and ODT output (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/merge_requests/145/)
  • GUI: updated JP translation (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/merge_requests/144)

New in Highlight 4.7 (Dec 29, 2023)

  • Updated astyle lib to version 3.4.1
  • CLI: fixed member variable initialization (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/merge_requests/143)

New in Highlight 4.6 (May 24, 2023)

  • Added `--service-mode` option to run highlight as long running process (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/merge_requests/140)
  • Added extras/highlight-service.py as an example for the service mode
  • Updated astyle lib to version 3.3
  • W32: added `--disable-echo` option (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/merge_requests/140)
  • W32: fixed output of ANSI sequences (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/194)

New in Highlight 4.5 (Mar 16, 2023)

  • Added support for Hare
  • Fixed `--no-trailing-nl` option for LaTeX output (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/216)
  • Fixed typos in rnc.lang, spn.lang and znn.lang (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/merge_requests/139)
  • Fixed missing ngerman package for `--replace-quotes` option (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/222)
  • Fixed quotes highlighting in XML (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/226)
  • Updated file extension lists (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/227)
  • Updated astyle lib to version 3.2 beta

New in Highlight 4.4 (Nov 14, 2022)

  • Added support for Zig
  • Added `Legacy` option in lsp.conf to add support for LSP servers without capabilities report
  • Removed apidocs target in makefile (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/213)
  • CLI: added `--ls-legacy` option
  • GUI: added legacy checkbox in the LSP section
  • GUI W32: fixed issue with non standard filename encodings (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/215)

New in Highlight 4.3 (Nov 14, 2022)

  • Added support for Carbon
  • Added support for Fortran77 star comments comments (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/208)
  • Added support for PowerShell block comments (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/210)
  • Fixed Python formatted string pattern (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/212)
  • Added new shell completion generation script (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/merge_requests/137/)
  • W32: fixed Windows compilation headers (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/merge_requests/138)

New in Highlight 4.2 (Mar 27, 2022)

  • Added support for Critic markup (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/197)
  • Added support for jam/ham (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/196)
  • Added support for PureScript (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/merge_requests/132/)
  • Added support for Nix (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/200)
  • Added ino file mapping / Arduino C (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/201)
  • Fixed RTF page color attributes (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/195)
  • Fixed identifier parsing in yaml.lang (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/190)
  • Fixed symbol parsing in lisp.lang https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/198
  • Fixed string parsing in csharp.lang (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/199)
  • Fixed string parsing in conf.lang (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/203)
  • Added make target `install-lib-shared` to install shared lib (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/202)
  • CLI W32: prevented automatic file pattern expansion (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/186)
  • GUI: added Japanese translation (thanks to FunFun)
  • GUI: disabled floating panel (state restore fails)

New in Highlight 4.1 (May 13, 2021)

  • Improved handling of Custom theme attributes (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/182)
  • Fixed wrong color code in edit-kwrite.theme
  • Added rng file mapping (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/merge_requests/129)
  • Improved Lisp highlighting
  • GUI: fixed highlighting options tab title (thanks to Craig)

New in Highlight 4.0 (Apr 2, 2021)

  • Renamed `std` style name to `def`
  • Version and README updates

New in Highlight 3.62 (Apr 2, 2021)

  • Fixed `--list-scripts` output (thanks to Jens Schleusener)

New in Highlight 3.61 (Apr 2, 2021)

  • Added `--syntax-supported` option
  • Fixed indentation of Plain TeX output

New in Highlight 3.60 (Dec 23, 2020)

  • Improved PHP 8 syntax support
  • Added Emacs Org-Mode support (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/174)
  • Fixed single argument and truecolor output of mark_lines.lua plug-in (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/164)
  • Added lineno and column parameters to Decorate hook
  • LIB: moved CodeGenerator::readUserStyleDef and getStyleDefinition to public (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/173)

New in Highlight 3.59 (Nov 16, 2020)

  • HTML output: added `white-space: pre-wrap` to pre tag CSS
  • Updated mark_lines.lua plug-in accept a line range as input parameter and output xterm256 terminal sequences
  • Improved Ruby code folding of the outhtml_codefold plug-in
  • Updated astyle lib to rev 672
  • Added support for reStructured Text (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/170)
  • Added support for Rego (openpolicyagent.org)
  • Added `outhtml_copy_clipboard.lua` plugin
  • CLI: adapted default xterm256/truecolor theme to terminal background colour
  • CLI: adapted ANSI line numbers to terminal background colour (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/172)
  • CLI: fixed segfault if the user home directory cannot be determined (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/171)
  • GUI: initial font set to Monospace
  • GUI: replaced highlight.xpm by highlight.png icon

New in Highlight 3.58 (Oct 18, 2020)

  • Improved `--force` fallback argument handling (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/163)
  • Added C++ attribute syntax support
  • Added Lua fuction `StoreValue` to set and retrieve information across Lua states
  • Added `extras/eclipse-themes/eclipse_color_themes.py` script to retrieve themes from eclipsecolorthemes.org
  • Added support for Web Assembly Text
  • Updated mark_lines.lua to output 16m terminal sequences (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/164)
  • Fixed issues in bash.lang (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/161)
  • Fixed Bash heredoc highlighting in bash_functions.lua (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/156)
  • CLI: `highlight --version -q` only prints the version number
  • GUI: added theme contrast indicator

New in Highlight 3.57 (May 15, 2020)

  • Added support for Haml (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/140)
  • Added support for Wren
  • Added Lua function `OverrideParam`
  • Fixed regression in xterm256 or truecolor output (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/152)
  • fixed `--list-scripts` with read-only language definitions (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/154)
  • Improved several language definitions

New in Highlight 3.56 (May 15, 2020)

  • Added support for Sequence Alignment Maps (SAM files)
  • Added empty-file mode to `--no-trailing-nl` (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/issues/147)
  • Fixed issue with `--syntax-by-name` waiting for stdin (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/151)
  • Fixed issue with `--syntax` reading matching files in the current working directory (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/151)
  • Fixed string parsing in lisp.lang (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/150)
  • Fixed output of UTF-8 text in xterm256 or truecolor output (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/issues/152)
  • Fixed regex in js.lang (thanks to Jens Schleusener)
  • Fixed calculation of testcase markers with UTF-8 input
  • Allowed number literals with underscores in Java, Scala, D, Julia, C#, Perl and Ada definitions
  • Added Nord theme (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/merge_requests/125)

New in Highlight 3.55 (Jan 30, 2020)

  • Improved handling of empty files in xterm256 and truecolor output (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/issues/147)
  • Added EncodingHint attributes to filetypes.conf and language definitions (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/issues/141)
  • CLI: allowed file paths as --theme and --syntax argument (https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/issues/145)
  • GUI: removed deprecated QTime API call

New in Highlight 3.43 (May 10, 2018)

  • updated astyle code to release 3.1 (Rev. 655)
  • added webkit reformatting style
  • improved several language definitions
  • fixed Matlab string recognition (https://github.com/andre-simon/highlight/issues/61)
  • fixed Autohotkey escape sequence recognition (thanks to Klaus Daube)
  • added excel.lang (https://github.com/andre-simon/highlight/pull/60)
  • improved Qt pro file (https://github.com/andre-simon/highlight/pull/59)
  • CLI: added --reformat-option (https://github.com/andre-simon/highlight/issues/62)
  • CLI: added --line-range (https://github.com/andre-simon/highlight/issues/64)
  • GUI: added Bulgarian translation (thanks to Georgi Sotirov)

New in Highlight 3.38 (Jun 25, 2017)

  • Fixed Bash variable highlighting issue
  • Updated astyle code to release 3.0.1 (https://sourceforge.net/p/astyle/bugs/438/)
  • Added bash_ref_man7_org.lua plugin

New in Highlight 3.36 (Apr 5, 2017)

  • fixed code folding plugin to support more Ruby conditional modifiers (thanks to Jens Schleusener)
  • fixed Perl quoted string highlighting (thanks to Jens Schleusener)
  • added new GeneratorOverride syntax definition parameter
  • added Filenames parameter in filetypes.conf to assign input filenames to syntax types
  • (suggested by Andy)
  • added FASM definition and edit-fasm theme (thanks to Tristano Ajmone)
  • added outhtml_ie7_webctrl plug-in (suggested by Tristano Ajmone)
  • GUI: file extensions can be configured for multiple languages, triggers syntax selection prompt
  • GUI: added Italian translation (thanks to Tristano Ajmone)

New in Highlight 3.35 (Apr 5, 2017)

  • fixed code folding plugin to support Ruby conditional modifiers
  • fixed JSON definition (thanks to Timothee Cour)
  • fixed output of unknown syntax warning with applied force switch (thanks to Andy)
  • added state trace parameter to Decorate plug-in function
  • added GDScript definition and edit-godot theme (thanks to Tristano Ajmone)
  • updated SWIG code samples
  • updated Artistic Style lib (SVN Rev. 553)
  • revised docs
  • CLI: fixed creation of hidden files if output filename is prepended by its input path
  • CLI: added switch --stdout (https://sourceforge.net/p/syntaxhighlight/bugs/14/)

New in Highlight 3.27 (Jan 22, 2016)

  • improved outhtml_codefold.lua to ignore brackets on the same line
  • added RTF output to mark_lines.lua
  • fixed Powershell and NSIS definitions
  • added JSON and Github Markdown definitions
  • CLI: added --keep-injections option to force plugin injection output with -f
  • GUI: added keep injections checkbox
  • GUI: fixed crash after removing selected plugins

New in Highlight 3.22 (Feb 24, 2015)

  • updated astyle code to release 2.05.1
  • fixed shebang recognition (thanks to Victor Ananjevsky)
  • GUI: added option to define line numbering start

New in Highlight 3.21 (Feb 3, 2015)

  • added support for LESS, SASS and Stylus CSS processors (suggested by Marcel Bischoff)
  • added support for Lua 5.3, removed LUA52 makefile option
  • fixed heredoc matching in perl.lang (thanks to cornucopia)
  • fixed Haskell lang (thanks to Daan Michiels)
  • fixed RNC lang (thanks to Daan Michiels)
  • fixed regex pattern in js.lang

New in Highlight 3.20 (Dec 3, 2014)

  • updated astyle code to release 2.05
  • added astyle reformatting style vtk

New in Highlight 3.19 (Sep 18, 2014)

  • added bold, italic and underline attributes to xterm256 ANSI output
  • fixed assembler mapping in filetypes.conf
  • added Swift definition
  • improved ASP, F#, OCaml and Lisp syntax definitions
  • added interpolation patterns to several definitions
  • updated base URLs in cpp_ref_gtk_gnome and cpp_ref_qtproject plugins
  • CLI: added Pango markup output option

New in Highlight 3.18 (Apr 10, 2014)

  • filenames without extension (ie. makefile) can be mapped in filetypes.conf (suggested by Sam Craig)
  • fixed Rexx highlighting
  • added GDB language definition (thanks to A. Aniruddha)
  • added the.theme (thanks to Mark Hessling)

New in Highlight 3.17 (Jan 18, 2014)

  • updated astyle code to release 2.04
  • added astyle reformatting styles google, pico and lisp
  • improved raw string parsing in cs.lang (patch by smdn.jp)
  • added regex recognition in js.lang (patch by Troy Sankey)
  • added PDF language definition (thanks to Roland Hieber)

New in Highlight 3.16 (Oct 4, 2013)

  • updated astyle code to release 2.03
  • added heredoc string literal parsing for Lisp, Perl, PHP, Ruby and Bash
  • revised several language definitions
  • added DataDir::searchDataDir for the Perl SWIG bindings (thanks to David Bremner)
  • added SWIG PHP binding (patch by G. Wijaya)

New in Highlight 3.15 (Aug 27, 2013)

  • updated Diluculum code to release 1.0 (support of Lua 5.2)
  • patched Diluculum to support Lua 5.1 and 5.2
  • added support for Yang (thanks to A. Aniruddha)
  • fixed Ruby definitions

New in Highlight 3.14 (Jun 5, 2013)

  • added HeaderInjection and FooterInjection variables for syntax plug-ins
  • fixed handling of CRLF files on Linux (suggested by William Bell)
  • replaced single data directory by a dynamic config file search; see README (suggested by Daniel)
  • added plug-ins outhtml_parantheses_matcher.lua, outhtml_keyword_matcher.lua
  • CLI: added --list-scripts option
  • CLI: marked --data-dir, --list-langs, --list-themes options as deprecated
  • CLI: removed --add-config-dir option

New in Highlight 3.13 (Feb 7, 2013)

  • added support for Crack (thanks to Conrad Steenberg)
  • added XML shebang regex (thanks to Ferry Huberts)
  • added hints to makefile to deal with Lua 5.1 and LuaJIT system libs
  • updated cpp_ref_gtk_gnome.lua plug-in
  • updated cpp_ref_cplusplus_com.lua plug-in
  • CLI: fixed segfault if --force was applied and unknown files were parsed (thanks to Jussi Judin)
  • GUI: fixed unselected theme after first program start

New in Highlight 3.12 (Oct 6, 2012)

  • CSS class name is omitted in HTML output if class-name option is set to NONE
  • added support for highlighting of string interpolation
  • added support for Dart and TypeScript
  • fixed SWIG module
  • GUI: added Simplified Chinese translation (thanks to Love NoAny)

New in Highlight 3.11 Beta (Aug 30, 2012)

  • replaced Pattern/Matcher classes by the Boost xpressive library (now swig example is broken)
  • updated Relax NG syntax (thanks to Roger Sperberg)
  • added new oxygenated theme (thanks to Roger Sperberg)
  • fixed highlight.pro to include correct lua5.1 paths
  • GUI: fixed shebang recognition

New in Highlight 3.10 Beta (Jul 24, 2012)

  • fixed HTML ordered lists to improve copy&paste in browsers (suggested by Nash)
  • changed default output from HTML 4.01 to HTML5
  • changed default HTML font family to include the generic monospace font
  • added ODT Flat XML output format (--out-format=odt)
  • added fontenc package in LaTeX output (patch by Yimin Li)
  • fixed RTF hyperlink output in several plug-ins
  • removed ctags option (functionality was replaced by plug-in)
  • CLI: added --wrap-no-numbers option (patch by Michael Enßlin)
  • GUI: replaced Qt file dialogs by native dialogs

New in Highlight 3.9 (May 2, 2012)

  • enhanced the plug-in interface (added Decorator function and Injections property)
  • added several example plug-ins which show how to add keyword links to online references (e.g. cplusplus.com, perldoc.perl.org, qtproject.org)
  • added ctags plugin (ctags_html_tooltips.lua)
  • improved Perl and N3 definitions (thanks to Heiko Jansen)
  • CLI: marked --ctags-file option as deprecated
  • CLI: added --plug-in-read option to define an input file for plug-ins
  • CLI: fixed file suffix recognition
  • GUI: added input field for a plug-in input file
  • GUI: fixed initial input tab selection
  • GUI: set initial font selection to Courier

New in Highlight 3.8 (Mar 1, 2012)

  • updated astyle code to release 2.02.1
  • fixed SWIG perl binding makefile (patch by David Bremner)
  • fixed shebang recognition (patch by Georgios M. Zarkadas)
  • fixed file suffix recognition (patch by Georgios M. Zarkadas)
  • fixed memory leak in astyle's SSFormatter (patch by MENG Wei)

New in Highlight 3.7 (Jan 6, 2012)

  • added support for Biferno (thanks to Sandro Bilbeisi)
  • added support for RPL (thanks to Frank Seidinger)
  • added support for Ceylon
  • fixed Ruby definition
  • HTML font string may contain a list of fonts, which is not enclosed in quotes (suggested by Sebastiano Poggi)
  • GUI: added --portable command line option to save config files in the current working directory instead of the user directory (suggested by Royi Avital)
  • GUI: fixed some language mappings

New in Highlight 3.3 (Dec 30, 2010)

  • updated astyle code to release 2.01
  • fixed overwriting of files with the same name in recursive batch mode (thanks to Ramanathan U.)
  • added DataDir class to SWIG interface (patch by David Bremner)
  • added Andes theme (thanks to Roger Sperberg)
  • enabled deprecated @highlight pass-through (suggested by David Bremner)
  • dropped oceandeep theme
  • updated documentation

New in Highlight 3.1 (Aug 26, 2010)

  • fixed README
  • fixed conversion without highlighting (--syntax txt)
  • fixed msxml definition (thanks to Andrei Rosca)
  • added edit-flashdevelop theme (thanks to Andrei Rosca)
  • CLI: fixed minor bugs

New in Highlight 2.16 (Apr 1, 2010)

  • updated astyle code to release 1.24
  • added indentation styles 1tbs and horstmann
  • added --no-trailing-nl switch (suggested by Adiel Mittmann)
  • added Modula2 definition (thanks to Benjamin Kowarsch)
  • added EBNF definition (thanks to Mate Ory)
  • added ABNF, AutoHotKey, BBCode and Clean language definitions
  • updated C++ definition to support C++0x syntax
  • added StartupNotify switch in desktop file (patch by Jochen Schmitt)

New in Highlight 2.15 (Feb 27, 2010)

  • improved HTML nested language patterns (thanks to Simone)
  • improved Rexx and PL1 definitions (thabnks to Robert Prins)
  • added support for NXC and NBC
  • GUI: added copy and paste support (thanks to Torsten Flamminger)
  • GUI: fixed preview of UTF-8 input

New in Highlight 2.13 (Oct 13, 2009)

  • fixed SVG output (thanks to Xico)
  • GUI: added new icon

New in Highlight 2.12 (Sep 10, 2009)

  • fixed bug with $INCLUDE statement
  • fixed ctags file parsing
  • added nested language recognition within a source file (suggested by Pavel Striz)
  • added $NESTED statement to language definitions (pas, html, tex)
  • added support for F# (fs.lang)
  • added support for haXe (hx.lang)
  • improved various language definitions
  • revised documentation
  • LIB: added version to shared lib output name
  • CLI: added options --start-nested and --print-style

New in Highlight 2.11 (Jul 28, 2009)

  • added BBCode output option (--bbcode, suggested by Qui Peccavit)
  • added new --delim-cr option to cope with MacOS 9 files (suggested by Steven Haddock)
  • added shared lib target (make lib-shared, suggested by Dario Teixeira)-list of installed languages (--list-langs) was enhanced to include mapped file extensions (suggested by Martin Kammerlander)
  • improved many colour themes using Agave (agave.sf.net)

New in Highlight 2.10 (Jun 26, 2009)

  • Fixed CR parsing bug on MacOS (thanks to Shiro Wilde)
  • fixed SWIG makefile (thanks to David Bremner)
  • license changed from GPLv2 to GPLv3 (incl. included libs)
  • updated Artistic Style lib to version 1.23
  • new indentation schemes: stroustrup, whitesmith, banner
  • removed indentSchemes and helpmsg directories
  • removed README_INDENT
  • replaced ide-devcpp theme by a new jedit theme
  • added support for Interactive Data Language (idlang, thanks to Roberto
  • Mendoza)
  • added support for Rebol, Oz, Mercury, Zonnon, ATS (Applied Type System),
  • CHILL, NetRexx, Inno Setup and INTERLIS
  • added pp, rjs, jnlp, groovy, gnad, es, sblc, ooc, gst, sq extensions
  • to filetypes.conf
  • improved Prolog, Pike, Oberon, Nice, Java, Lisp, Lua, Haskell, C# and SML
  • definitions
  • improved spec.lang for RPM (thanks to Luoyi Ly)
  • CLI: option --help-lang is deprecated
  • API: dropped setSpecialOptions(), renamed initializing methods to init

New in Highlight 2.9 (May 4, 2009)

  • added more customized boxes for the LaTeX --pretty-symbols switch (thanks to Romain Francois)
  • GUI: fixed makefile to pass costum paths to the Qt project makefile (thanks to Joerg Germeroth)
  • GUI: reduced window height (thanks to Fidel Barrera)
  • GUI: added Spanish translation (thanks to Fidel Barrera)
  • GUI: added drag and drop for input files

New in Highlight 2.8 (Apr 9, 2009)

  • added --pretty-symbols option to improve LaTeX output quality of tilde and braces (thanks to Romain Francois)
  • omitted warning message if --syntax parameter is contained in the --skip list (thanks to Bob Smith)
  • included language descriptions in --list-langs output
  • dropped dependency of --replace-quotes and --fragment options
  • enhanced Python SWIG example (testmod.py)
  • added qmake language definition
  • fixed SWIG scripts (thanks to David Bremner)
  • fixed gcc 4.4 compilation (patch by Jochen Schmitt)
  • dropped core/html32generator.*
  • dropped src/gui (wxWidgets based interface)
  • GUI: rewrote the user interface using Qt

New in Highlight 2.7 (Jan 15, 2009)

  • changed versioning scheme to major.minor
  • fixed infinite loop in the W32 build when outputting LaTeX/TeX as UTF-8 (thanks to Christophe Bal)
  • fixed VHDL and Scilab definitions (thanks to Frederik Teichert)
  • fixed XML definition (thanks to Edin)
  • fixed -r switch (thanks to Frederik Teichert)
  • fixed default number recognition regex
  • added Clojure language definition (thanks to Pierre Larochelle)
  • added wrapping arrow in LaTeX/HTML output if --wrap/--wrap-simple is set (suggested by Frederik Teichert)
  • updated ide-msvcpp.style to match current Visual Studio appearance (suggested by Pieter Kruger)
  • added make targets "lib" and "cli"
  • organized sources in subdirectories (core, cli, gui) and adjusted makefiles