Request: Syntax highlighting library for "Chili" jQuery plugin

{ I put this in Extension Development because it doesn't really fit elsewhere. }

After much research on something that would do proper Expression Engine syntax highlighting (much like the forums here offer), I found Chili, a jQuery plugin.

http://noteslog.com/chili/

It was pretty simple to install and configure, though I use TinyMCE inside EE, and TinyMCE loves to cleanup code, sometimes in unwanted ways. This makes it challenging to include EE code snippets in the middle of a weblog entry.

However, I have it working. The problem is that the Chili “recipes”, as their called, or syntax highlight libraries do not include EE code. I set it to highlight EE code as if it is PHP, which highlights a bare minimum of it.

The syntax highlighting libraries look like this (a snip…)

, php: {
          mlcom: {
              _match: /\/\*[^*]*\*+([^\/][^*]*\*+)*\// 
            , _style: "color: gray;"
        }
        , com: {
              _match: /(?:\/\/.*)|(?:[^\\]\#.*)/ 
            , _style: "color: green;"

Lots of Regex. I think for an experienced developer, it would be a relatively trivial matter to make one for EE. You have to do some Regex along with entering a huge list of EE keywords so they will be highlighted properly.

Any takers? If someone does this, I will write a tutorial on how to put all the pieces together and implement syntax highlighting for EE weblog posts.