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From: Catalin Constantin Mititiuc <webdevcat@proton.me>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:09:39 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add rough draft

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+{
+  blurb: "Add a new lexer to chroma"
+}
+
+## Intro
+
+Chroma doesn't have a MoonScript lexer. It does has a Python script that can
+convert Pygments lexers, though, and Pygments has a MoonScript lexer.
+
+## Run MoonScript lexer generation script
+
+To create the lexer, in the Chroma root directory run:
+
+```console
+$ docker run --rm -it -w /opt -v $PWD:/opt python bash -c \
+"pip install pystache pygments \
+&& python _tools/pygments2chroma_xml.py \
+pygments.lexers.scripting.MoonScriptLexer > lexers/embedded/moonscript.xml \
+&& pip list"
+```
+
+## Use the Chroma MoonScript lexer to highlight some code
+
+Create a file like this:
+
+::: filename-for-code-block
+`main.go`
+:::
+
+```go
+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+
+	"github.com/alecthomas/chroma/v2/quick"
+)
+
+func main() {
+    code := `package main
+
+    func main() { }
+    `
+
+    fmt.Println(quick.Highlight(os.Stdout, code, "go", "html", "monokai"))
+}
+```
+
+I did one of these:
+
+```console
+$ docker run --rm -it -w /opt -v $PWD:/opt golang:tip-bookworm \
+go mod init main
+```
+
+Which gave me the `go.mod` file.
+
+::: filename-for-code-block
+`go.mod`
+:::
+
+```
+module main
+
+go 1.25
+
+require (
+	github.com/alecthomas/chroma/v2 v2.18.0 // indirect
+	github.com/dlclark/regexp2 v1.11.5 // indirect
+)
+```
+
+Then I did one of these:
+
+```console
+$ docker run --rm -it -w /opt -v $PWD:/opt golang:tip-bookworm \
+go run main.go
+```
+
+And that should output markup (and styles) for highlighting that block of Go
+code to the console. But if we notice, it's importing the Chroma package from
+the GitHub repo. We want to use our local version of chroma, so we use `go mod
+edit` to [replace the chroma import with our local version](https://go.dev/ref/mod#go-mod-file-replace):
+
+```console
+$ docker run --rm -it -w /opt -v $PWD:/opt golang:tip-bookworm \
+go mod edit -replace github.com/alecthomas/chroma/v2@v2.18.0=./chroma
+```
+
+Which adds this line to our `go.mod` file:
+
+::: filename-for-code-block
+`go.mod`
+:::
+
+```
+...
+
+replace github.com/alecthomas/chroma/v2 v2.18.0 => ./chroma
+```
+
+Now we can put some MoonScript in `main.go`.
+
+```go
+code := `print "Hello, #{@name}!"`
+
+fmt.Println(quick.Highlight(os.Stdout, code, "moonscript", "html", "monokai"))
+```
+
+And we have it:
+
+```console
+$ docker run --rm -it -w /opt -v $PWD:/opt golang:tip-bookworm \
+go run main.go
+go: downloading github.com/dlclark/regexp2 v1.11.5
+```
+
+That should output syntax highlighting using our local version of chroma.
+
+## Create testdata
+
+Create a file in `lexers/testdata` called `moonscript.actual`. Add the tokens
+from the language in this file.
+
+## Record test output
+
+Create another file called `lexers/testdata/moonscript.expected`. This is the
+file we will record to.
+
+```console
+$ RECORD=true go test ./lexers
+```
+
+Visually inspect and verify that the expected data is correct.
+
+## Run tests
+
+```console
+$ go test ./lexers
+```
+
+## Bonus!: Use local `pygments` with `pygments2chroma_xml.py`
+
+These lines in `pygments2chroma_xml.py`:
+
+```python
+import pystache
+from pygments import lexer as pygments_lexer
+from pygments.token import _TokenType
+```
+
+Import pygments from pip? How do we get it to load a local version of
+`pygments`?
+
+In Pygments root directory:
+
+```console
+$ docker run --rm -it -w /opt -v $PWD:/opt \
+-v ../gitea-syntax-highlight/chroma/_tools/pygments2chroma_xml.py:/opt/pygments2chroma_xml.py \
+python bash -c "pip install pystache && pip list \
+&& python pygments2chroma_xml.py pygments.lexers.scripting.LuaLexer"
+```
+
+Should see.
+
+```console
+Package  Version
+-------- -------
+pip      25.0.1
+pystache 0.6.8
+```
+
+That shows no remote pygments package is installed. After that you will see the
+lexer markup output.
+
+```console
+<lexer>
+  <config>
+...
+```
+
+If you wanted to save