[Python-Dev] Code highlighting in tracker

[Raymond Hettinger]

On Apr 7, 2011, at 9:22 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:01 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
>> 2011/4/6 anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>:
>>> Is it a good idea to have code highlighting in tracker?

+0

That has its highpoints;

* give tracker entries a more professional appearance
  closer to what is done on code paste sites, code viewers, and wikis

* provide a clean way to post code snippets
  (we've had past issues with whitespace being gobbled-up)


The downsides:
* it would probably need a preview button and markup help screen
* it's just one more thing to learn and maintain
* many ways to do it (code paste, rietveld, attaching a patch, plain text, etc)
* smells of feature creep


Raymond