Inline Syntax Highlighting in MediaWiki

Question

Is there any MediaWiki extension that supports inline syntax highlighting? (i.e. with support for code snippets embedded within regular text paragraphs)

I currently use SyntaxHighlight GeSHi, but I'm not sure it supports inline highlighting.

Answer 1

You can add enclose="none" to your <source> tag:

There is <source lang="mylanguage" enclose="none">inline code</source> in this paragraph.

Answer 2

The simplest solution is using: <code>put your code here</code>

Answer 3

While using <code>inline code</code> or, for example, <syntaxhighlight lang="groovy" inline>inline code</syntaxhighlight> works typing this in is a real pain, especially if you deal with a lot of code snippets.

If the wiki is under your control you can extend its markup. The example below shows how to shorten the above to <c>inline code</c> and <sg>inline code</sg> respectively using tag extensions method.

Create Customtags directory for your new extension in your MediaWiki extensions directory (MW_HOME/extensions/). In this directory create a customtags.php file with the following content:

<?php

$wgHooks['ParserFirstCallInit'][] = 'customtagsInit';

function customtagsInit(Parser $parser) { 

    // parameters: custom tag, custom renderer function
    $parser->setHook('c', 'customRenderShortCode');
    $parser->setHook('sg', 'customRenderSourceGroovy');

    return true;
}

function customRenderSourceGroovy($input, array $args, Parser $parser, PPFrame $frame) {
    $input = '<syntaxhighlight lang="groovy" inline>' . $input . '</syntaxhighlight>';
    $wikiparsed = $parser->recursiveTagParse($input, $frame);
    return $wikiparsed;
}

function customRenderShortCode($input, array $args, Parser $parser, PPFrame $frame) {
    $wikiparsed = $parser->recursiveTagParse($input, $frame);
    return '<code>' . $wikiparsed . '</code>';
}

?>

Finally register this extension in LocalSettings.php and you are good to go:

require_once "$IP/extensions/Customtags/customtags.php";

In a similar way you can create short tags for larger blocks of code.