Kitty is just a quick console syntax highlighting tool. It was written in C++ and it shows and syntax highlights source files (when it can). The approach is very simplistic (intentionally) so one shouldn't expect too great things from it, but it can at least help as a quick solution. It's set up in a modular way to support for more languages should not be that hard.
The name "Kitty" is a pun to "cat", the unix tool to create and view text files. Although "cat" is not named after the animal but is merely a shortening for "conCAT", it was just a nice play to do. Oh, by the way, my beloved little girl (see picture below) is also named "Kitty"... Isn't she cute?
Kitty will normally recognize the file you want to view with it by its extension, and highlight it, if it has been recognized. It works as simple as this:
Kitty "SourceFile.c" Multiple files are also possible, like this:
Kitty "SourceFile.c" "HeaderFile.h"Now Kitty has NO built-in support for wild cards, which can be a bit of a bummer in Windows unless you're using Cygwin I guess.
A Linux version is being planned. Since I don't pay loads of money to Apple in order to gain their trust, I doubt Kitty will work on any Apple device for the time being, unless you wish to compile everything yourself, but I never tested if that would work. Although not tested, Kitty should work with tools such as Wine.
Wine Kitty.exe "SourceFile.c"
# Of course that is if Kitty.exe is in a directory Wine can find XDOn the moment this document was updated, the next languages were supported:
| Extension | Language | Added by: | Notes: |
|---|---|---|---|
| bas | BASIC/GW-BASIC/QBASIC | Jeroen P. Broks | Please note that due to the many variants of this language the highlight can sometimes be faulty. |
| bb | BlitzBasic | Jeroen P. Broks | This includes its variants Blitz3D and BlitzPlus |
| bmx | BlitzMax | Jeroen P. Broks | |
| bf | Brainfuck | Jeroen P.Broks | Esolang |
| c/cpp/h/hpp | C/C++ | Jeroen P. Broks | |
| cs | C# | Jeroen P. Broks | |
| go | Go | Jeroen P. Broks | |
| html/htm | HTML | Freezernick | |
| ini | ini/config/GINIE | Jeroen P. Broks | |
| java | Java | Jeroen P. Broks | |
| js | JavaScript | Jeroen P. Broks | |
| json | JSON | Jeroen P. Broks | |
| lua | Lua | Jeroen P. Broks | |
| nil | NIL isn't Lua | Jeroen P. Broks | |
| neil | Neil | Jeroen P. Broks | |
| pas | Pascal | Jeroen P. Broks | |
| py | Python | Jeroen P. Broks | |
| saskia | SAKSIA | Jeroen P. Broks | |
| scyndi | Scyndi | Jeroen P. Broks | |
| vb | VisualBasic | Freezernick | |
| ws | Whitespace | Jeroen P. Broks | Depending on the used console software, this may not work on your system or not well. |
| xml | XML | Freezernick | This also triggers C# and Visual C++ projects and XAML files |
More might be added later, but no promises yet ;)