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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-04 11:33:32 +0000 |
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diff --git a/doc/docs/lexers.rst b/doc/docs/lexers.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..446c5a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/docs/lexers.rst @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +.. -*- mode: rst -*- + +================ +Available lexers +================ + +This page lists all available builtin lexers and the options they take. + +Currently, **all lexers** support these options: + +`stripnl` + Strip leading and trailing newlines from the input (default: ``True``) + +`stripall` + Strip all leading and trailing whitespace from the input (default: + ``False``). + +`ensurenl` + Make sure that the input ends with a newline (default: ``True``). This + is required for some lexers that consume input linewise. + + .. versionadded:: 1.3 + +`tabsize` + If given and greater than 0, expand tabs in the input (default: ``0``). + +`encoding` + If given, must be an encoding name (such as ``"utf-8"``). This encoding + will be used to convert the input string to Unicode (if it is not already + a Unicode string). The default is ``"guess"``. + + If this option is set to ``"guess"``, a simple UTF-8 vs. Latin-1 + detection is used, if it is set to ``"chardet"``, the + `chardet library <https://chardet.github.io/>`_ is used to + guess the encoding of the input. + + .. versionadded:: 0.6 + + +The "Short Names" field lists the identifiers that can be used with the +`get_lexer_by_name()` function. + +These lexers are builtin and can be imported from `pygments.lexers`: + +.. pygmentsdoc:: lexers + + +Iterating over all lexers +------------------------- + +.. versionadded:: 0.6 + +To get all lexers (both the builtin and the plugin ones), you can +use the `get_all_lexers()` function from the `pygments.lexers` +module: + +.. sourcecode:: pycon + + >>> from pygments.lexers import get_all_lexers + >>> i = get_all_lexers() + >>> i.next() + ('Diff', ('diff',), ('*.diff', '*.patch'), ('text/x-diff', 'text/x-patch')) + >>> i.next() + ('Delphi', ('delphi', 'objectpascal', 'pas', 'pascal'), ('*.pas',), ('text/x-pascal',)) + >>> i.next() + ('XML+Ruby', ('xml+ruby', 'xml+erb'), (), ()) + +As you can see, the return value is an iterator which yields tuples +in the form ``(name, aliases, filetypes, mimetypes)``. |