Disable Jekyll's default syntax highlighter Rouge

2018-02-05

By default Jekyll have Rouge syntax highlighter. In some cases, you may want to disable it. To get Rouge disabled in Jekyll, just do the following.

Open the _config.yml file located at the root directory.
Add the following line:

highlighter: none

To disable Rouge on website which are hosted on Github Pages add the following line:

markdown: kramdown
kramdown:
   syntax_highlighter_opts:
      disable : true

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