279556 - Support Syntax highlighting in file:// files

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: File Handling, enhancement)

Description

[R.Sathish]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Few linux browsers like Konquereor support syntax highlighting using vim and
other embedded components.

Firefox can add this support for PLs like
Java,C++,C ...
And make this configurable to add more PLs be end user.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open a Java file file://c:/sample.java in firefox
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Java file is displayed without Syntax highlighting

Expected Results:  
1.Syntax highlighted display
2.Formatted display

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Firefox isn't a programmers editor, it has to stay as small as possible. If you
would like this, you need to write an extension.

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

As Jo said, this is something for an extension.