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GitHub uses something known as the "GitHub Flavored Markdown" for messages, issues and comments. My questions are:
From what I understand one can specify the programming language for syntax highlighting using the following syntax:
```ruby
require 'redcarpet'
markdown = Redcarpet.new("Hello World!")
puts markdown.to_html
```
Where one can specify the programming language after the ``` string (e.g. ```ruby)
My question is: How do I look up the specifier for a programming language? (e.g. C does not seem to work for the C programming language)
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Many Markdown processors support syntax highlighting for fenced code blocks. This feature allows you to add color highlighting for whatever language your code was written in. To add syntax highlighting, specify a language next to the backticks before the fenced code block.
Syntax highlighting is one strategy to improve the readability and context of the text; especially for code that spans several pages. The reader can easily ignore large sections of comments or code, depending on what they are looking for. Syntax highlighting also helps programmers find errors in their program.
We use Linguist to perform language detection and to select third-party grammars for syntax highlighting.
Creating an issue from code On GitHub.com, navigate to the main page of the repository. Locate the code you want to reference in an issue: To open an issue about code in a file, navigate to the file. To open an issue about code in a pull request, navigate to the pull request and click Files changed.
For a list of the possible lexers that github wiki can use see here: http://pygments.org/docs/lexers/
If you find that a certain lexer is not supported, github recommends forking their code and submitting it via a pull request: https://github.com/blog/774-git-powered-wikis-improved
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