fine, ill do it your way

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 22 deletions

diff --git a/init.lua b/init.lua
index abd0f2f..c4358ca 100644
--- a/init.lua
+++ b/init.lua
@@ -2,28 +2,17 @@ local html = require'garkup.html'
 local T = html.T
 local prose = require'garkup.prose'
 
-function empipe(prog, input)
-	local posix = require'posix'
-	local unistd = posix.unistd or require'posix.unistd'
-	local pipe = assert(posix.popen_pipeline({
-		function() io.write(input) end,
-		prog
-	}, "r"))
-	local output = ""
-	repeat
-		local next = assert(unistd.read(pipe.fd, 8192))
-		output = output .. next
-	until #next == 0
-	assert(posix.pclose(pipe))
-	return output
-end
-
-function highlight(code, lang)
-	local highlighted = empipe(
-		{"highlight", "-f", "-S", lang, "--inline-css", "--enclose-pre"},
-		code
-	)
-	return html.safe(highlighted)
+local function highlight(code, lang)
+	-- you'd better not already be using that file
+	local infile = assert(io.open("/tmp/highlighter_input","w"))
+	assert(infile:write(code))
+	local outhandle = assert(io.popen("highlight -f -S "..lang.." --inline-css --enclose-pre </tmp/highlighter_input", "r"))
+	local output = assert(outhandle:read"a")
+
+	outhandle:close()
+	infile:close()
+
+	return html.safe(output)
 end
 
 local function mode_code(S)