New lexers not recognised by TracPygmentsPlugin

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Hi I added a new lexer to the pygments package to get highlighting t a yet unsupported language. It works fine when I call pygmentize in the console. However, the new lexer is not recognised by the TracPygmentsPlugin. It just wouldn't highlight the files in the Browser view.

Do I still have to activate some kind of remapping (like it has to be done within pygments) to register any new lexers?

[Alec Thomas]

Have you read "​http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TracPygmentsPlugin#Options" ? Specifically pygments_modes.

[anonymous]

Replying to athomas:

Have you read "​http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TracPygmentsPlugin#Options" ? Specifically pygments_modes.

Sorry but I'm not that familiar with python programming and I couldn't make much out of that line of documentation. Also in the source code didn't help me either I'm afraid. Is there perhaps some easy solution? The things I have done to get pygmentize work with the new lexer are:

• go to the lexers directory
• copy my newLexer.py into this directory (it's simply an adjusted copy of the already present lexers there
• run: python _mapping.py to make pygments aware of the new lexer

So what else is missing to get TracPygmentsPlugin to use the new lexer?

[anonymous]

Ok finally figured it out. It's just that a real example would have helped me earlier on. So just in case somebody else is as blind as me, here is my example:

• go to the lexers directory
• copy (or symlink) the newLexer.py into this directory
• in the new lexer definition also add a mimetypes field:

  class NewLexer(RegexLexer):
      name = 'NewLexer'
      aliases = ['newlexer']
      filenames = ['*.nlex']
      mimetypes = ['text/x-newlexer']
  

• run: python _mapping.py to make pygments aware of the new lexer
• and now add in the trac.ini

  [mimeviewer]
  mime_map = text/x-newlexer:nlex
  pygments_modes = text/x-newlexer:newlexer:7
  

• restart apache with apache2ctl graceful