Question

Probably I just can’t find the magic words for google, but I just can find the documentation on how to use the code directive in restructuredText with the supported languages.

The supported languages can be found here: http://pygments.org/languages/ but I need to know what each [language] translates into in the following code snippet:

.. code:: [language]

 {code here}

For instance

.. code:: bat

 {code here}

seems to be windows batch files.

Where is this documented?

Answer 1

I don’t know any place where this is documented, however looking at the docutils code shows that docutils uses pygments.lexers.get_lexer_by_name() to find the right lexer.

This function takes the short names of the lexers given in pygments lexers.