Syntax highlighting on Wordpress.org blog

Syntax highlighting on Wordpress.org blog requires a plug-in, while syntax highlighting on Wordpress.com is built-in.

Different plug-ins use different methods for highlighting code. Some use the pre tag, some use the code tag, while the rest use various forms of shortcode such as [code][/code] or [language_name].

Ideally, I'd like my syntax highlighter to fulfill the following criteria:

1. Use Alex Gorbatchev's SyntaxHighlighter library
2. Auto-format code
3. Collapse/expand large code blocks

Despite the large number of syntax-highlighting plugins available, there are none that fulfill all of these criteria. In the end, I settled for what seems to be the most popular plug-in, Viper007Bond's SyntaxHighlighter Evolved. It uses Alex's SyntaxHighlighter and allows the viewer to expand code that is initially collapsed, but there is no auto-formatting capability and no way to re-collapse the code.

A bonus is that it supports the [sourcecode language="language_name"][/sourcecode] tag, which is the same shortcode that Wordpress.com uses, so I don't have to reformat my old posts (not that there are too many).

Here is a code sample using the default theme:

[sourcecode language="cpp"]
#include <iostream.h>
main()
{
char C = 64;
cout << C++ << " ";
C = 96;
return 0;
}

[/sourcecode]