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Introduction to Pygments

Pygments (http://pygments.org) is a very powerful, easy to use library that can help you with syntax highlighting on your blog or other documents. I am going to quickly show you 4 different ways you can use pygments to easily add syntax highlighting to your website. Pygments can be found in most package managers:

  • Debian/Ubuntu: aptitude install python-pygments
  • Gentoo: emerge pygments
  • Darwin Ports: port install pygments
  • Easy Install: easy_install Pygments

Command Line

pygmentize is the command line tool that the pygments library provides. Here is a quick reference for common use cases:

  • Output HTML: pygmentize -f html -o ...
Categories:  django, javascript, pygments
TUE APR 22, 08