macOS App: Syntax Highlight does not work properly

GreatOm 2021-02-22 12:45:16 UTC #1

Keywords: Mediawiki - OS X - How to - Other
Description:
The syntax highlight extension "SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi" is already pre-installed in the macOS MediaWiki App. This is great.
I changed my "LocalSettings.php" file and added the line

wfLoadExtension( 'SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi' );
(VisualEditor is also enabled and it works properly).

After a restart of the services it does work partly. This means for example

Label

Does show a gray area with a dashed blue border. It does somehow not colorize the XML code.
Any clue what's wrong here?

GreatOm 2021-02-22 12:50:25 UTC #2

Unfortunately I cannot edit my post above.
Here is the XML code which is missing in the previous post:
<syntaxhighlight lang="xml" line="1" style="border:3px dashed blue">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
</dict>
</syntaxhighlight>

fdepaz 2021-02-23 09:42:05 UTC #3

Hello @GreatOm,

The extension SyntaxHighlight uses the the python syntax highlighter Pygments, which doesn't come installed by default. To do so, you just have to run the following commands:

sudo apt install python3-pip
sudo pip3 install Pygments
sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart

That should fix the missing color issue. Re-save any existing code-block if the changes doesn't apply automatically to them.

GreatOm 2021-02-23 11:16:03 UTC #4

Thanks for your reply. I thought the extension does include all needed stuff when pre-installed. This is also suggested in the SyntaxHighlight README…

So I followed your advise but it does still not work.
I tried also adding
$wgPygmentizePath="/usr/local/bin/pygmentize";
to "LocalSetings.php" but it does still not work. The extension is active but no text is colorized.

So I will have again take a look at the documentation.

GreatOm 2021-02-23 12:32:12 UTC #5

Finally I got it working. Thanks for you help.

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