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-rw-r--r--custom/extensions/syntax-highlight.lua3
1 file changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletion
diff --git a/custom/extensions/syntax-highlight.lua b/custom/extensions/syntax-highlight.lua
index 3a4fa9b..e0000ec 100644
--- a/custom/extensions/syntax-highlight.lua
+++ b/custom/extensions/syntax-highlight.lua
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ local scintillua_env = "CGIT_SCINTILLUA_PATH"
-- directory next to cgitrc is enough for it to be found. The lexers come
-- from https://orbitalquark.github.io/scintillua/ and need lpeg, built for
-- the Lua cgit is linked against. Forgetting that is the usual reason
--- nothing is coloured.
+-- nothing is coloured. A file is coloured only when Scintillua's detect()
+-- names its lexer, so an older Scintillua without detect() colours nothing.
--
-- # Debian and Ubuntu
-- sudo apt install lua-lpeg