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Michael Camilleri edited this page Jun 19, 2019 · 19 revisions

Here the list of the supported languages and lexers. Feel free to write your own submitting a pull request ! Contributions are welcome.

Note that the canonical, always-up-to-date list of lexers can be found by running rougify list.

  • abap: SAP - Advanced Business Application Programming
  • actionscript: ActionScript [aliases: as,as3]
  • apache: configuration files for Apache web server
  • apiblueprint: Markdown based API description language. [aliases: apiblueprint,apib]
  • applescript: The AppleScript scripting language by Apple Inc. (http://developer.apple.com/applescript/) [aliases: applescript]
  • awk: pattern-directed scanning and processing language
  • biml: BIML, Business Intelligence Markup Language
  • brainfuck: The Brainfuck programming language
  • bsl: The 1C:Enterprise programming language
  • c: The C programming language
  • ceylon: Say more, more clearly.
  • cfscript: CFScript, the CFML scripting language [aliases: cfc]
  • clojure: The Clojure programming language (clojure.org) [aliases: clj,cljs]
  • cmake: The cross-platform, open-source build system
  • coffeescript: The Coffeescript programming language (coffeescript.org) [aliases: coffee,coffee-script]
  • common_lisp: The Common Lisp variant of Lisp (common-lisp.net) [aliases: cl,common-lisp,elisp,emacs-lisp]
  • conf: A generic lexer for configuration files [aliases: config,configuration]
  • console: A generic lexer for shell sessions. Accepts ?lang and ?output lexer options, a ?prompt option, and ?comments to enable # comments. [aliases: terminal,shell_session,shell-session]
  • coq: Coq (coq.inria.fr)
  • cpp: The C++ programming language [aliases: c++]
  • crystal: Crystal The Programming Language (crystal-lang.org) [aliases: cr]
  • csharp: a multi-paradigm language targeting .NET [aliases: c#,cs]
  • css: Cascading Style Sheets, used to style web pages
  • d: The D programming language(dlang.org) [aliases: dlang]
  • dart: The Dart programming language (dartlang.com)
  • diff: Lexes unified diffs or patches [aliases: patch,udiff]
  • digdag: A simple, open source, multi-cloud workflow engine (https://www.digdag.io/)
  • docker: Dockerfile syntax [aliases: dockerfile]
  • dot: graph description language
  • eiffel: Eiffel programming language
  • elixir: Elixir language (elixir-lang.org) [aliases: elixir,exs]
  • elm: The Elm programming language (http://elm-lang.org/)
  • erb: Embedded ruby template files [aliases: eruby,rhtml]
  • erlang: The Erlang programming language (erlang.org) [aliases: erl]
  • escape: A generic lexer for including escaped content - see Formatter.enable_escape! [aliases: esc]
  • factor: Factor, the practical stack language (factorcode.org)
  • fortran: Fortran 2008 (free-form)
  • fsharp: F# (fsharp.net)
  • gherkin: A business-readable spec DSL ( github.com/cucumber/cucumber/wiki/Gherkin ) [aliases: cucumber,behat]
  • glsl: The GLSL shader language
  • go: The Go programming language (http://golang.org) [aliases: go,golang]
  • gradle: A powerful build system for the JVM
  • graphql: GraphQL
  • groovy: The Groovy programming language (http://www.groovy-lang.org/)
  • hack: The Hack programming language (hacklang.org) [aliases: hack,hh]
  • haml: The Haml templating system for Ruby (haml.info) [aliases: HAML]
  • handlebars: the Handlebars and Mustache templating languages [aliases: hbs,mustache]
  • haskell: The Haskell programming language (haskell.org) [aliases: hs]
  • hcl: Hashicorp Configuration Language, used by Terraform and other Hashicorp tools
  • html: HTML, the markup language of the web
  • http: http requests and responses
  • hylang: The HyLang programming language (hylang.org) [aliases: hy]
  • idlang: Interactive Data Language
  • igorpro: WaveMetrics Igor Pro
  • ini: the INI configuration format
  • io: The IO programming language (http://iolanguage.com)
  • irb: Shell sessions in IRB or Pry [aliases: pry]
  • java: The Java programming language (java.com)
  • javascript: JavaScript, the browser scripting language [aliases: js]
  • jinja: Django/Jinja template engine (jinja.pocoo.org) [aliases: django]
  • json: JavaScript Object Notation (json.org)
  • json-doc: JavaScript Object Notation with extenstions for documentation
  • jsonnet: An elegant, formally-specified config language for JSON
  • jsp: JSP
  • jsx: React JSX (https://facebook.github.io/react/) [aliases: jsx,react]
  • julia: The Julia programming language [aliases: jl]
  • kotlin: Kotlin Programming Language (http://kotlinlang.org)
  • lasso: The Lasso programming language (lassosoft.com) [aliases: lassoscript]
  • liquid: Liquid is a templating engine for Ruby (liquidmarkup.org)
  • literate_coffeescript: Literate coffeescript [aliases: litcoffee]
  • literate_haskell: Literate haskell [aliases: lithaskell,lhaskell,lhs]
  • llvm: The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure (http://llvm.org/)
  • lua: Lua (http://www.lua.org)
  • m68k: Motorola 68k Assembler
  • magik: Smallworld Magik
  • make: Makefile syntax [aliases: makefile,mf,gnumake,bsdmake]
  • markdown: Markdown, a light-weight markup language for authors [aliases: md,mkd]
  • mathematica: Wolfram Mathematica, the world's definitive system for modern technical computing. [aliases: wl]
  • matlab: Matlab [aliases: m]
  • moonscript: Moonscript (http://www.moonscript.org) [aliases: moon]
  • mosel: An optimization language used by Fico's Xpress.
  • mxml: MXML
  • nasm: Netwide Assembler
  • nginx: configuration files for the nginx web server (nginx.org)
  • nim: The Nim programming language (http://nim-lang.org/) [aliases: nimrod]
  • nix: The Nix expression language (https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ch-expression-language) [aliases: nixos]
  • objective_c: an extension of C commonly used to write Apple software [aliases: objc,obj-c,obj_c,objectivec]
  • ocaml: Objective Caml (ocaml.org)
  • pascal: a procedural programming language commonly used as a teaching language.
  • perl: The Perl scripting language (perl.org) [aliases: pl]
  • php: The PHP scripting language (php.net) [aliases: php,php3,php4,php5]
  • plaintext: A boring lexer that doesn't highlight anything [aliases: text]
  • plist: plist [aliases: plist]
  • powershell: powershell [aliases: posh,microsoftshell,msshell]
  • praat: The Praat scripting language (praat.org)
  • prolog: The Prolog programming language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog) [aliases: prolog]
  • prometheus: prometheus [aliases: prometheus]
  • properties: .properties config files for Java
  • protobuf: Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data [aliases: proto]
  • puppet: The Puppet configuration management language (puppetlabs.org) [aliases: pp]
  • python: The Python programming language (python.org) [aliases: py]
  • q: The Q programming language (kx.com) [aliases: kdb+]
  • qml: QML, a UI markup language [aliases: qml]
  • r: The R statistics language (r-project.org) [aliases: r,R,s,S]
  • racket: Racket is a Lisp descended from Scheme (racket-lang.org)
  • ruby: The Ruby programming language (ruby-lang.org) [aliases: rb]
  • rust: The Rust programming language (rust-lang.org) [aliases: rs,rust,no_run,rs,no_run,rust,ignore,rs,ignore,rust,should_panic,rs,should_panic]
  • sass: The Sass stylesheet language language (sass-lang.com)
  • scala: The Scala programming language (scala-lang.org) [aliases: scala]
  • scheme: The Scheme variant of Lisp
  • scss: SCSS stylesheets (sass-lang.com)
  • sed: sed, the ultimate stream editor
  • shell: Various shell languages, including sh and bash [aliases: bash,zsh,ksh,sh]
  • sieve: mail filtering language
  • slim: The Slim template language
  • smalltalk: The Smalltalk programming language [aliases: st,squeak]
  • smarty: Smarty Template Engine [aliases: smarty]
  • sml: Standard ML [aliases: ml]
  • sqf: Status Quo Function, a Real Virtuality engine scripting language
  • sql: Structured Query Language, for relational databases
  • supercollider: A cross-platform interpreted programming language for sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, and realtime performance
  • swift: Multi paradigm, compiled programming language developed by Apple for iOS and OS X development. (developer.apple.com/swift)
  • tap: Test Anything Protocol [aliases: tap]
  • tcl: The Tool Command Language (tcl.tk)
  • terraform: Terraform HCL Interpolations [aliases: tf]
  • tex: The TeX typesetting system [aliases: TeX,LaTeX,latex]
  • toml: the TOML configuration format (https://github.com/mojombo/toml)
  • tsx: tsx
  • tulip: the tulip programming language (twitter.com/tuliplang) [aliases: tulip]
  • turtle: Terse RDF Triple Language, TriG
  • twig: Twig template engine (twig.sensiolabs.org)
  • typescript: TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript [aliases: ts]
  • vala: A programming language similar to csharp.
  • vb: Visual Basic [aliases: visualbasic]
  • verilog: The System Verilog hardware description language
  • vhdl: Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language
  • viml: VimL, the scripting language for the Vim editor (vim.org) [aliases: vim,vimscript,ex]
  • vue: Vue.js single-file components [aliases: vuejs]
  • wollok: Wollok lang
  • xml: XML
  • xojo: Xojo [aliases: realbasic]
  • yaml: Yaml Ain't Markup Language (yaml.org) [aliases: yml]
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