Embedded Gists

Syntax Highlighting - or Embedded Gists

I was quite excited by the inline syntax highlighting that Hugo provides via the python plugin Pygments. But also wanted to try embedding gists

So here is an example…

<p>def digit_sum(n):
    s = 0
    while n:   # while n is ‘truthy’ for an integer that means not 0
        s = s + (n % 10)   # the sum is the sum + the remainder of dividing the incoming number (n) by 10  157 % 10 = 7
        n = n / 10         # n = the integer of n / 10   int(15.7) = 15
    return s</p>

<p>print digit_sum(157)</p>

<p>”’
calling digit_sum(157)</p>

<h2>loop  | s   | n   | n % 10  | n / 10</h2>

<p>0     | 0   | 157 |   7     |  15
1     | 7   | 15  |   5     |  1
2     | 12  | 1   |   1     |  0
3     | 13  | 0   |         |<br />
”’</p>

But then thought perhaps it is better to embed gists than have inline markup in blog posts then folk can fork the code and comment there.

So on embedding a gist as follows (but without syntax highlighting) failed…

<script src="https://gist.github.com/danmux/042fa69bed3791afe658.js">
</script>

Putting it in another block partially worked

<p>
    <script src="https://gist.github.com/danmux/042fa69bed3791afe658.js">
    </script>
</p>

I was left with an unclosed script tag.

A git of googling turned up this thread…

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/hugo-discuss/3GW56aMYQF8

and this pull request …

https://github.com/spf13/hugo/pull/305

which missed the latest release by a few days…

https://github.com/spf13/hugo/releases/tag/v0.11

So I went ahead an built the master head - from my fork (ya know just in case I can help)

and added the script tag in….

And it worked !

Nice work jmitchell and Steve Francia.

So gists it is for me