pygments-css

If you're looking for the Pygments CSS styles, they're under the styles directory.

Context

Pygments is a generic syntax highlighter. I use it for syntax highlighting code blocks on my (eventual) fastpages blog. The Pygments is actively maintained, which is great! It continues to add different styles and support for different languages.

Unfortunately, one of the repos that maintained easily-usable CSS files for these styles is quite stale. So, I decided to spend the 15 minutes to get a new set of CSS files generated. Ta-da!

In truth, the only real differences are based around their repo's staleness: it hasn't been updated in 4 years, and Pygments has more themes now.

Development

This is a dead-simple project. If you'd like to extend it, all you need locally are poetry and make to get the development environment setup via make build. Then you run make css to re-build the local styles folder. Done!

Notes

Nobody asked for it, but here's an unofficial ranking in descending order, with entries within a tier not necessarily in any particular order:

• 🥇 The best: default, friendly, colorful
• 👍 Solid picks: murphy, manni, pastie, tango, xcode, paraiso-dark, arduino
• 🤔 Hmm...: autumn, emacs, perldoc, native, vim, vs, igor, paraiso-light, lovelace, rainbow_dash, inkpot
• 😶 Oh no...: borland, trac, fruity, bw, abap, solarized-dark, solarized-light, sas, stata, stata-light
• 🤖 Monokai: monokai (Sorry, I just don't like Monokai)
• 💩 Why does this exist: rrt, algol, algol_nu, stata-dark

TODO

The official Pygments website demo is...a bit painful to use. Maybe we can set up a streamlit app that can do this demo a bit more sensibly?