Supported language highlighters in Pygments for Jekyll and GitHub Pages

You can CTRL+F and search for your required highlighter:

##List of lexers/highlighters supported by pygments:

How this list was created

I wanted to highlight ini files in postfix configuration post and was looking for a list of languages supported by jekyll’s pygments plugin. So I could use it in {% highlight {language} %} tag. But I couldn’t find a proper list so I dig into pygments code documentation to find supported highlighters and landed on Available Lexers page on pygments.org site.

To make your and mine life easier I setup a python virtualenv and did pip install pygments and wrote this script:

from pygments.lexers import get_all_lexers

lexers = get_all_lexers()
print """
<table>
	<tr>
		<th>
			Format
		</th>
		<th>
			Short names for highlight tag
		</th>
	</tr>
""";
for lexer in lexers:
	print "<tr>\n"
	print "\t<td>" + lexer[0] + "</td>"
	print "\t<td>" + ", ".join(lexer[1]) + "</td>"
	print"</tr>\n";
print "</table>";

It yields us the required list in table. I found ini and cfg in the list so I used them as {% highlight ini %} and {% highlight cfg %}.