What syntax highlighter is GitHub using on their site to display the code when you click on the file names?
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What syntax highlighter is GitHub using on their site to display the code when you click on the file names?
As this help page of GitHub.com says, they’re using the Linguist library, which is written in Ruby.
Linguist’s highlighters for each language are within
vendor/grammars. And a list of supported languages can be found here, here, and here.