CHROMA(1)

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version 0.10.0 · 5 versions
, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy

✨ NAME ✨

chroma — the general purpose syntax highlighting program, bestie 💅✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

chroma [options] files ...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so this manual page documents briefly the chroma command. That's the whole tea. 🍓

👑 OPTIONS 👑

So these programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (-). A summary of options is included below, and yes I'm giving you all of them, no skips, no crumbs left behind. 🫶

  • --help — Shows you context-sensitive help. Iconic behaviour honestly.
  • --list — Lists lexers, styles and formatters. Like a lil inventory moment.
  • --unbuffered — Do not buffer output. Zero patience, we love that for us.
  • --trace — Traces lexer states as they are traversed. Full main character surveillance arc 🔍
  • --check — Do not format, check for tokenization errors instead. Just vibes-checking, no glow-up.
  • --filename=FILENAME — The filename to use for selecting a lexer when reading from stdin. Because stdin has no name of its own, poor thing 😭
  • -l, --lexer=autodetect — The lexer to use when formatting. Default is autodetect, and she's good at her job fr fr.
  • -s, --style=swapoff — The style to use for formatting. Default swapoff, slay.
  • -f, --formatter=terminal — The formatter to use. Defaults to terminal, as she should.
  • --html — Enable HTML mode (equivalent to --formatter html). Two ways to say the same thing, we contain multitudes.
  • --html-prefix=PREFIX — HTML CSS class prefix.
  • --html-styles — Output HTML CSS styles.
  • --html-only — Output HTML fragment. A snippet, not the whole saga.
  • --html-inline-styles — Output HTML with inline styles (no classes). Living inline, no class needed 💅
  • --html-tab-width=8 — Set the HTML tab width. Default: 8.
  • --html-lines — Include line numbers in output.
  • --html-lines-table — Split line numbers and code in a HTML table
  • --html-lines-style=HTML-LINES-STYLE — Style for line numbers.
  • --html-highlight=N[:M][,...] — Highlight these lines.
  • --html-highlight-style=HTML-HIGHLIGHT-STYLE — Style used for highlighting lines.
  • --html-base-line=1 — Base line number. Default: 1.
  • --version — Show application version. Know your queen's era. 👑

💀 BUGS 💀

Found something cursed? See GitHub Issues: https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma/issues

ngl if something's broken, that's the place to spill, not the group chat 🙈

and that's the whole CHROMA(1) manual page bestie — this is CHROMA(1) from the good people who brought you the chroma command, so go highlight something and eat, no cap 💖✨🎀

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