How to turn on syntax highlighting in etherpad

syntax-highlighting collaboration etherpad
Martin Preusse picture Martin Preusse · Aug 5, 2010 · Viewed 7k times · Source

There are many free etherpad implementations since it went open source. Does etherpad support syntax highlighting or is some kind of add-on available?

I tried http://typewith.me/ http://sync.in/ http://www.piratenpad.de/

Answer

Frozen_byte picture Frozen_byte · Apr 19, 2012

You can install a plugin in Etherpad called "Syntax highlighting".

To install the plugin simple visit /admin/plugins on your Etherpad deployment and then search for "syntax" and click Install.

For details on the plugin see https://npmjs.org/package/ep_syntaxhighlighting

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