GeSHi Project Update

15/03/2005
Just to keep you all informed, this is a quick update on the progress for GeSHi.

I have just started back at university for my second year of a BSc in computer science, and the pace has been quite torrid. I don't get too much chance to work on GeSHi, but I am trying to find time.

Work on 1.2.X still continues. I added functionality to support the start and end of a context being highlighted differently from the rest of the context, which makes more sense for things like <?php ... ?>. The delimiters should be highlighted, and not treated as keywords. Furthermore, because you can use a regular expression to match a starter, and capture blocks from that starter to match in the ender, heredoc syntax becomes easy and works perfectly now.

I think that the parser has got to a stage where it is pretty stable, so now I am refactoring and documenting the code. But since I don't have too much time, I'm looking at other people handling the language files. I will report more on this later.

Thanks to the people who sent in graphics for GeSHi - rest assured they will be used when I get around to the website redesign for the 1.2.X release.

And finally, I hope to get around to doing a 1.0.7 release soon (in my mid-trimester break). Some people have raised some issues with 1.0.6 that should be solved. So look out for that soon!