Should pygments.rb handle lexer not found errors differently? about pygments.rb HOT 3 CLOSED

You should verify the lexer exists before trying to use it. See linguist for examples.

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Closing this since clients of pygments.rb should ensure lexer existence.

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You should verify the lexer exists before trying to use it. See linguist for examples.

Just fyi: linguist doesn't use pygments.rb directly. Perhaps some dependency does. I hit this error and was wondering the proper way to deal with it, after a bunch of reading docs and messing with pygments,

begin
  Pygments.highlight(code, lexer: language)
rescue MentosError => e
  Pygments.highlight(code, lexer: 'text')
end

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