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= CodeRay
-You might want to see the original version of this documentation on
-http://rd.cYcnus.de/coderay/doc (use Ctrl+Click to open it in its own frame.)
+[- Tired of blue'n'gray? Try the original version of this documentation on
+http://rd.cYcnus.de/coderay/doc (use Ctrl+Click to open it in its own frame.) -]
== About
CodeRay is a Ruby library for syntax highlighting.
Syntax highlighting means: You put your code in, and you get it back colored;
-Keywords, Strings, Floats, Comments - all in different colors.
+Keywords, strings, floats, comments - all in different colors.
And with line numbers.
*Syntax* *Highlighting*...
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ Author:: murphy
Idea:: licenser
Website:: rd.cYcnus.de/coderay[http://rd.cYcnus.de/coderay]
Copyright:: (c) 2005 by cYcnus
-License:: Not yet decided
-Subversion: $Id$
+License:: GNU LGPL; see LICENSE file in the main directory.
+Subversion:: $Id$
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@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Subversion: $Id$
You need RubyGems[http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126].
- % gem install coderay
+ % gem install coderay
=== Dependencies
@@ -43,28 +43,61 @@ CodeRay needs Ruby 1.8 and the strscan[http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/str
== Example Usage
(Forgive me, but this is not highlighted.)
- require 'coderay'
-
- hl = CodeRay.html :line_numbers => :column
- puts hl.highlight_page "puts 'Hello, world!'", :ruby
+ require 'coderay'
+
+ hl = CodeRay.html :line_numbers => :column
+ puts hl.highlight_page "puts 'Hello, world!'", :ruby
== Documentation
See CodeRay.
+Please report errors in this documentation to <coderay cycnus de>.
+
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== Credits
=== Special Thanks to
+
* licenser (Heinz N. Gies) for ending my QBasic career, inventing the Coder project and the input/output plugin system.
CodeRay would not exist without him.
=== Thanks to
-* Caleb Clausen for writing RubyLexer (see http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubylexer) and lots of mails
+
+* Caleb Clausen for writing RubyLexer (see http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubylexer) and lots
+ of very interesting mails traffic
* Jamis Buck for writing Syntax (see http://rubyforge.org/projects/syntax)
+ I got some useful ideas from it.
+* Doug Kearns and everyone else who worked on ruby.vim - it not only helped me coding CodeRay,
+ but also gave me a wonderful target to reach for the Ruby scanner.
* everyone who used CodeRay on http://www.rubyforen.de and http://www.infhu.de/mx
* iGEL, magichisoka, manveru and everyone I forgot from rubyforen.de
* Dookie (who is no longer with us...) and Leonidas from http://www.python-forum.de
+* matz, nobu, why, dave, dhh, etc... you know, those Ruby gods and gurus
+* The inventors of: the computer, the internet, the true color display, HTML & CSS, VIM, RUBY,
+ pizza, microwaves, guitars, scouting, programming, anime, manga, coke and green ice tea.
+
+Where would we be without all those people?
+
+=== Created using
+
+* Ruby[http://ruby-lang.org/en/]
+* Chihiro (my Sony VAIO laptop) and Seras (my Athlon 2200+ tower)
+* VIM[http://vim.org]
+* RDE[http://homepage2.nifty.com/sakazuki/rde_e.html]
+* Microsoft Windows (yes, I confess!)
+* Firefox[http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/] and Thunderbird[http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/]
+* Rake[http://rake.rubyforge.org/]
+* RubyGems[http://docs.rubygems.org/]
+* {Subversion/TortoiseSVN}[http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/] using Apache via XAMPP[http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html]
+* RDoc (though I'm quite unsatisfied with it)
+* GNUWin32, MinGW and some other tools to make the shell under windows a bit more usefull
+
+---
+
+* As you can see, CodeRay was created under heavy use of *free* software.
+* So CodeRay is also *free*.
+* If you use CodeRay to create software, think about making this software *free*, too.