Feature request: leverage pygments' internal file type detection

[hoelzro]

Linguist's language detection is pretty good, but some languages (ex. Perl 5 vs Perl 6) have special logic built into pygments itself to detect which language a blob of code is. Would it be possible to enter this value as a weight of some sort when determining the correct lexer to use?

[pchaigno]

Would it be possible to enter this value as a weight of some sort when determining the correct lexer to use?

I'm not sure I understand. Which value are you referring to?

[bkeepers]

@hoelzro thanks for the suggestion! A few months ago we definitely would have been interested in this, however…

We are actually moving away from pygments and using TextMate/SublimeText/Atom syntax bundles instead. We will likely be posting more about it soon, but for now that means we want to avoid any tighter coupling with pygments.

[hoelzro]

@pchaigno To satisfy any curiosity you may have, pygments returns a certainty value between 0 and 1 indicating how certain it is that a blob is of a particular language.

[hoelzro]

@bkeepers Thanks for the response; good to know! Now I just have to port my lexer over to that =/