Syntax highlighting on GitHub's Wiki: Specifying the programming language
github, github-linguist, markdown
Solution
For a list of the possible lexers that github wiki can use see here: http://pygments.org/docs/lexers/
If you find that a certain lexer is not supported, github recommends forking their code and submitting it via a pull request: https://github.com/blog/774-git-powered-wikis-improved
Problem
GitHub uses something known as the "GitHub Flavored Markdown" for messages, issues and comments. My questions are: - Does GitHub also use this syntax for their Wiki? From what I understand one can specify the programming language for syntax highlighting using the following syntax: ```` ```ruby require 'redcarpet' markdown = Redcarpet.new("Hello World!") puts markdown.to_html ``` ```` Where one can specify the programming language after the ````` string (e.g. ````ruby`) My question is: How do I look up the specifier for a programming language? (e.g. `C` does not seem to work for the C programming language)