[IPython-dev] IPython Syntax Highlighting for the Nice Editor (and JOE)

[Matthias Bussonnier]

Sweet !

Thanks for sharing !, I'm not even sure IPython has the correct
highlighting everywhere !
-- 
M

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 7:41 PM, Carl Smith <carl.input at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Nice Editor (also known as ne) is a user-friendly alternative to Emacs
> and Vim, hailed by Linux Voice as "the third best editor for Linux". It's
> simple and fast, and feels really modern, like Sublime, not like nano. I
> love it, and use it with IPython, so recently asked about adding a syntax
> highlighter for editing IPython blocks and ipy files. The lead developer,
> Sebastiano Vigna (vigna), was super helpful, and implemented it.
>
> With IPython commands, you can highlight the bang or percent character one
> colour and the actual command a different colour, and it works with =!
> statements (and is not confused by Python's modulo and not-equals
> operators). Nice could potentially highlight the commands as shell syntax,
> but the simplicity of the current solution is nice. It looks like this:
>
> @line_magic
>
> def appserver(args):
>
>
>     path, port = server_argparse(args)
>
>     % dev_appserverpy $path --port $port
>
>
> @line_magic
>
> def sonicboom(port):
>
>
>     def kill(process):
>
>
>         id = process.split()[1]
>
>         ! kill -9 $id
>
>         return int(id)
>
>
>     processes =! lsof -i tcp:$port
>
>     graveyard = [ kill(process) for process in processes if "(LISTEN)" in
> process ]
>
>
>
>
> If you are interested in using this at the moment, the file you need is here
> (as a gist):
>
> https://gist.github.com/carlsmith/fb451f9a8f5a6e699e3eaeda40d3918a
>
> JOE (Joe's Own Editor) uses the same syntax highlighting definitions, so the
> file will work with that editor too.
>
> There are links to HTML and PDF versions of the Nice Editor docs at
> http://ne.di.unimi.it .
>
> Best,
> -- Carl Smith
> carl.input at gmail.com
>
>
>
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