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All Syntax Highlighter 2.0 brushes collected, described and downloadable

Posted on 21 September 2009

It is rather hard to find what language syntax brushes are available that have been created to work with the excellent SyntaxHighlighter created and maintained by Alex Gorbatchev.

Note: this article is about brushes for the new SyntaxHighlighter versions 2.0 and above (download here), which are maintained by Alex Gorbatchev himself on his alexgorbatchev.com, not the older and unmaintained version that is still available through Google Code, also known as Google’s SyntaxHighlighter. When searching for the new highlighter through Google, one’s still being brought to the old Google Code site.

About the Language Brushes Overview

The original Syntax Highlighter (version 2.0.320 at the time of this writing) comes with a plethora of brushes (aka syntax scripts, syntaxes, lexers) out of the box. These brushes are well-covered with examples on the page of the Bundled Syntaxes. However, when people create their own brushes, they will not get listed there, unless Alex Gorbatchev decides to add them to his default bundle. He can’t check each and every of them, which is why he made the brushes idea to create an extensible system. People submitting brushes are invited to do so through the forum, requiring membership to post, which lists most of them on the Brushes Category page.

In this post, I’ll just make an easy overview of all standard brushes and all new brushes, adding small examples for each of them, so you have all brushes in one place. The download locations are external, as are the sites of the maintainers of these brushes. I’ve tried to be complete, but if your brush is not here or if you find a broken link, please report it here.

List of all available language brushes

Following is the list of all avalailable language brushes for the SyntaxHighligter that I could locate on the internet. For all the bundled brushes, the homepage points to the example page of that brush at alexgorbatchev.com unless it was provided by someone else, in which case I tried to located his or her brush site.

Normally you wouldn’t want to download the bundled brushes because you have them already. The provided download is to the plain non-zipped JavaScript version of the brushes, a deeplink straight into the BitBucket’s source repository of SyntaxHighlighter.

For non-bundled brushes, if I couldn’t find a homepage, I link to the forum post or simply link here (boring, I know). Most javascript (*.js) brush files have been copied here to ease downloading. I’ve notified the creators for each and every brush. If I accidentally forgot you or wasn’t able to get through one way or the other, I apologize in advance.

Any download from this site is in the public domain and free to use, alter or distribute and comes with no warranties of any kind, unless the download itself states otherwise. If you have created the original source and you don’t like it distributed here, please let me know and I remove it from the list.

Language name (filename.js)	Bundled	Aliases	WP	Description	Home, download
ActionScript1 (shBrushAS3.js)	yes	as3, actionscript3		Adobe ActionScript, used in Flex and Flash version 3, provided by Peter Atoria.
ActionScript2 (shBrushAS3.js)	no	as3, actionscript3		Adobe ActionsScript, supports Flash 10 and is an extension to the original provided brush. This brush was originally indepently developed and later adopted for SyntaxHighlighter 2.0 by Gabriel Mariani.
Ada (shBrushAda.js)	no	ada		Ada (after Ada Lovelace) is and has been the language of choice for the DOD in the US for decades; brush created by spatterson.
Assembler (ASM)1 (shBrushAsm.js)	no	asm, x86		Assembler brush, almost full support for all x86 assembler instructions, kindly created and under active development by UN-I-QUE.
ASM / NASM / MASM2 (shBrushNasm.js)	no	nasm8086, 8086, nasm, asm, masm		Provides x86 assembly instructions and NASM / MASM support; brush created by Tistory (?).
AppleScript (shBrushAppleScript.js)	no	applescript		You use AppleScript to automate tasks on the Apple; brush created by David Chamber.
AutoHotKey (shBrushAhk.js)	no	ahk, autohotkey		AutoHotKey or AHK is a way to script and automate any application on your system, whether it supports automation or not; brush provided by mjneish (test page), probably created by “n-l-i-d” (no reference available).
Bash / Shell (shBrushBash.js)	yes	bash, shell		Unix / Linux sh / shell / bash script for automating system tasks.
Batch (shBrushBat.js)	no	bat,batch,cmd		*.BAT and *.CMD files on Windows can contain batch file commands; brush created by Ildar Shaimordanov.
C# (shBrushCSharp.js)	yes	c#, c-sharp, csharp		C# is the Lingua franca of the Microsoft .NET  world.
C++ (shBrushCpp.js)	yes	cpp, c		Good ole’ C++, cross platform programming, compile into native machine code.
Clojure (shBrushClojure.js)	no	clojure, Clojure, clj		Clojure is a modern dialect of Lisp, created by Travis Whitton.
ColdFusion (shBrushColdFusion.js)	no	cf, coldfusion		Adobe Coldfusion is a declarative / imperative enterprise language; brush created by Jen.
CSS (shBrushCss.js)	yes	css		Cascading Style Sheets for decorating HTML elements.
Delphi (shBrushDelphi.js)	yes	delphi, pas, pascal		Borland Delphi, with origins in procedural Pascal, still widely used.
Diff (shBrushDiff.js)	yes	diff, patch		Use this to highlight output of the commandline diff tool, i.e., for comparing two text files.
Erlang1 (shBrusErlang.js)	no	erlang, erl		Erlang is a GP concurrent programming language by a(mainly)  functional paradigm; brush created by Will Larson, (based on original code by Steve Gilham’s).
Erlang2 (shBrushErlang2.js)	no	erlang, erl		Much improved alternative brush for Erlang by Steve Gilham, based on an improved version of his 1.5 SH Erlang brush.
F# (shBrushFSharp.js)	no	f#,f-sharp, fsharp		F# is Microsoft’s functional language for the .NET environment; brush kindly adjusted for 2.0 by Steve Gilham based on his 1.5 version of the brush.
Groovy (shBrushGroovy.js)	yes	groovy		Groovy is an object oriented alternative for the Java platform.
Java (shBrushJava.js)	yes	java		Java, for cross-platform enterprise development: build once, run everywhere.
JavaFX (shBrushJavaFX.js)	yes	jfx, javafx		Java’s (Sun’s) alternative to Flash and Silverlight, provided by Patrick Webster.
JavaScript (shBrushJScript.js)	yes	js, jscript, javascript		Known by many names: javascript, ecmascript, jscript, it’s the language to spice up your static web pages.
LaTeX (shBrushLatex.js)	no	latex, tex		LaTeX and TeX are the de facto document languages in the academic and scientific community and can be used to create PDF, PS, DVI and other outputs; brush created by Jorge Martinez de Salinas.
LSL (shBrushLsl.js)	no	lsl		Linden Scripting Language, used in Second Life, provided by sabro
Lua1 (shBrushLua.js)	no	lua		Lua is an imperative / functional interpreted scripting language; brush created by bear.mini.
Lua2 (shBrushLua.js)	no	lua		Alternative brush for the previous, hosted on a Korean site.
Mathematica (shBrushMathematica.js)	no	mathematica, mm		Mathematica for doing mathematical calculations, plotting, computations and parallel programming, brush created by James Rohal. Note from author: the long list of functions (2200) can make the browser unresponsive when you use this brush.
MATLAB1 (shBrushMatlab.js)	no	matlab		MATLAB is a program and language that can be used for mathematical calculations and computations, brush created by James Rohal. Note from author: the long list of functions (1300) can make the browser unresponsive when you use this brush.
MATLAB2 (shBrushMatlab.js)	no	matlab		Simpler MATLAB brush, which doesn’t slow down your browser, contains the most-used keywords only. Submitted by mail by Will Schleter based on James’s brush.
Objective-C / Cocoa (shBrushObjectiveC)	no	objc, obj-c		Objective-C or Cocoa, a variant of C++; brush provided by Geoffrey Byers and YoungJin Shin (v 1.5).
Oxygene (shBrushOxygene.js)	no	oxygene, prism, delphi-prism		Delphi Prism Oxygene (aka Chrome) is Delphi.NET without the burden of backward compatibility was developed by RemObjects; brush created by rgrove.
Perl (shBrushPerl.js)	yes	perl, pl		Interpreted scripting language, famous for bringing regular expressions to the masses. Original brush provided by Martin Kube of Beaver Creek Consulting, based on Nev Stokes 1.5 version.
PHP1 (shBrushPhp.js)	yes	php		PHP, short for Personal Home Page, is now the acclaimed widest adopted interpreted scripting language for the internet
PHP2 (shBrushPhp.js)	no	php		Improved version of bundled PHP brush made by David Chambers, see home/info page for more info:
Plain Text (shBrushPlain.js)	yes	plain, text		Just text, no highlighting.
PowerShell1 (shBrushPowerShell.js)	yes	ps, powershell		Powershell is an interactive Windows commandline scripting language, brush credits for B. v. Zanten (no url).
PowerShell2 (shBrushPowerShell2.js)	no	powershell, posh, ps		Alternative brush, provided by Xenophane, created by Joel Bennett, updated by Claus T Nielsen.
Processing (shBrushProcessing.js)	no	processing, Processing		Processing is a language for electronic arts and visual design. This brush is for the main Processing language, NOT for the Processing.js adaptation (see wishes). Brush by Sebastian Korczak
Python (shBrushPython.js)	yes	py, python		Python is an object oriented interpreted scripting language, de facto language at Google’s.
RouterOS (shBrushRouterOS.js)	no	ros		RouterOS scripts are used for scripting MikroTik routers, found here.
RPG / ILE-RPG (shBrushRpgle.js)	no	rpgle, rpg4		RPG or ILE-RPG is an old language still in wide use on IBM mainframes; brush created by Loyd Goodbar.
Ruby (shBrushRuby.js)	yes	rails, ror, ruby		Interpreted scripting language, popular modular alternative for PHP and Perl.
Sahi (shBrushSahi.js)	no	sahi, sahiscript		Sahi is used for scripting web automation and web testing, brush created by V. Narayan Raman.
Scala (shBrushScala.js)	yes	scala		Multi paradigm language mainly as an alternative to Java for writing more concise code.
SQL (shBrushSql.js)	yes	sql		Structured Query Language, mainly used with databases.
Visual Basic (shBrushVb.js)	yes	vb, vbnet		The BASIC style languages, now Visual Basic, easy to use .NET language.
YAML (shBrushYaml.js)	no	yaml, yml		YAML Ain’t Markup Language, human friendly serialization standard, created by Nicolas Perriault.
XML (shBrushXml.js)	yes	xml, xhtml, xslt, html, xhtml		eXtended Markup Language for describing data in a general way, use this brush for (X)HTML as well.

Couldn’t see yours? Please leave a comment with a link to your favorite highlighter or send me yours directly (abel.online at xs4all dot nl) so that I can include it.

Requested brushes and works in progress

Here’s a small list of brushes not mentioned above that I couldn’t find anywhere but that have been requested one way or the other by users of forums or blogs,  or that have not been finished yet:

When a brush was provided by Alex in the distro or when I managed to locate a brush, I removed it from this wish list. Let me know (comment below) when you have some wishes yourself or when you know of one of these wishes being fulfilled.

Do it yourself

If your favorite language or syntax (doesn’t need to be a language, of course) is not provided here, you can wish for it by commenting on this post so that I can include your wish in the wish list and some day someone magically creates one and notifies you or me about it. Or…! you can Create One Yourself. It is really not that hard, but it requires a bit of understanding of regular expressions and JavaScript. If you don’t have either, you can give the details of your language (what to match to what color etc) to me and perhaps I magically create one, but don’t hold your breath, time is not always on my side .

Where to start? If you follow these three links you should be well on your way to your own syntax brush. Once finished, don’t forget to send it to me!

1. The Developer’s Guide for Custom Brushes, or this alternative short tutorial.
2. Learning / understanding and a reference of regular expressions.
3. Trying out your regular expressions online (choose your pick).

Brushes for version 1.5

As you may have found out by now, this list is dedicated to version 2.0 of the SyntaxHighlighter, not the earlier version which is not maintained anymore (known as Google’s Code Highlighter). If you are looking for a brush for version 1.5 which is listed here, please upgrade to 2.0. It is a breeze to upgrade using the shLegacy.js file. How this is done is explained in the Upgrade Guide from 1.5 to 2.0.

An old list of supported languages for version 1.5 exists. Read through the comments to find out whether your favorite language is supported by someone for version 1.5.

Useful links

Following is a simple list of references about SyntaxHighlighter. If you have created a nice tutorial, plugin or helper program that goes together with this syntax highlighter, then drop me line, I’d be glad to add it to this overview.

Thanks

Thanks to everyone for providing these brushes to the community and thanks to Alex Gorbatchev for sharing his excellent script with the world.

Donationware

It’s great that we can use software for free from people like Alex Gorbatchev. If you find his Syntaxhighlighter useful and you use it on your site, or if you get extra revenues because you use his software, please support him by sending him a donation, see his website for details.

From version 2.0.296, Alex says the following about switching to the Lesser General Public License v3, which shouldn’t keep anyone from donating him, rather the opposite, quote:

It was brought to my attention that donation clause isn’t compatible with LGPL, therefore I elected to sacrifice potential free beer to stay proper open source, which. This of course means that donations are no longer required, but desired just the same (or even more so now because even fewer people will donate).

History

A short history of this page, of what I added when:

Also see list on Topsy tweets, which keeps track of my changes.

– Abel –

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Dylan says:

August 4, 2010 at 17:50

We’ve created a brush for the D programming language. I’m wondering if there’s a preferred method of distribution for people who need it. Should I put up a plugin page on our website? Let me know your thoughts!

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Michael says:

July 24, 2010 at 17:37

Hi!

I wrote a Brush for Haskell. It includes regular expressions for recognizing keywords, Prelude functions, single- and multiline comments, data types, function names and Haskell’s most important symbols:

http://github.com/mrueegg/haskell_syntax_highlighter

Hope you like it. I would very appreciate if it would be included in the next release.

Please report errors or problems to rueegg.michael@gmail.com.

Thanks,
Michael

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Abe Voelker says:

July 9, 2010 at 07:15

I forgot to mention, I also included a Wordpress plugin that extends the SyntaxHighlighter Evolved plugin, for those who would like to easily post highlighted Progress/ABL/OpenEdge code to Wordpress.

Thanks again.

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Abe Voelker says:

July 9, 2010 at 07:13

Hello Abel,

I created a brush for the Progress / OpenEdge / ABL language. It hope it could be useful for others if you would add it to your list.

Blog post including example highlight: http://www.abevoelker.com/blog/?p=10
Direct link to code: http://github.com/abevoelker/SyntaxHighlighter-Progress-OpenEdge-ABL-Brush

Thanks!
Abe Voelker

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nCdy says:

July 2, 2010 at 08:57

Nemerle (Nemerle.org)

http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=3982#c0

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June 24, 2010 at 10:18

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SukiSan says:

June 23, 2010 at 10:49

I needed a brush for Gherkin/Cucumber and found

http://hackingon.net/post/Syntax-Highlighting-for-Gherkin-%28Cucumber-Language%29.aspx

thx

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Robert Mark Bram says:

June 21, 2010 at 10:01

Well done Abel – thank you very much. Helped me a lot to upgrade my blog to use the next version of SyntaxHighlighter when I found it was missing the DOS/BATCH/CMD brush.

Rob

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Mike says:

June 15, 2010 at 21:21

Hi Abel,

I just wrapped up an brush for Oracle PL/SQL and posted it to Github. It can be located here:

http://gist.github.com/439573

I hope this can help someone out!

Thanks.

Mike

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cristian says:

June 4, 2010 at 02:10

Haskell syntax brush http://www.cprieto.com/index.php/2009/12/22/syntaxhighlighter-2-0-haskell-brush/

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Pavlos Fragkiadoulakis says:

May 24, 2010 at 18:18

Hi Abel,

Here is a tested version of the Fortran (90/95) highlighter (no javascript errors appear).
I have modified the work of Blake Harms (that’s one year since his last work) to make it actually work. It is Highlighter v2.0 friendly and the following is tested for Fortran 90/95 (last applied version of Fortran for 10 years).

[Older versions like FORTRAN 77 or even older have very awkward syntax because data was entered through punched cards at that time. But that's history!]

To implement it just write etc.

Here is an example of the implementation of the Fortran highlighter:
http://gltaurus.blogspot.com/2010/05/safer-read-call-in-fortran-95.html

Because of the fact that I have applied it only to my blog in blogger.com, I cannot save the javascript file there (so I cannot provide a link).
In the blogger template, I have included the following script in script tags (I would be happy if someone could host this file!)

file : shBrushFortran.js——————-

SyntaxHighlighter.brushes.Fortran = function()
{
var funcs = ‘abs achar acos acosd adjustl adjustr aimag aimax0 aimin0 aint ajmax0 ajmin0 akmax0 akmin0 all allocated alog alog10 amax0 amax1 amin0 amin1 amod anint any asin asind associated atan atan2 atan2d atand bitest bitl bitlr bitrl bjtest bit_size bktest break btest cabs ccos cdabs cdcos cdexp cdlog cdsin cdsqrt ceiling cexp char clog cmplx conjg cos cosd cosh count cpu_time cshift csin csqrt dabs dacos dacosd dasin dasind datan datan2 datan2d datand date date_and_time dble dcmplx dconjg dcos dcosd dcosh dcotan ddim dexp dfloat dflotk dfloti dflotj digits dim dimag dint dlog dlog10 dmax1 dmin1 dmod dnint dot_product dprod dreal dsign dsin dsind dsinh dsqrt dtan dtand dtanh eoshift epsilon errsns exp exponent float floati floatj floatk floor fraction free huge iabs iachar iand ibclr ibits ibset ichar idate idim idint idnint ieor ifix iiabs iiand iibclr iibits iibset iidim iidint iidnnt iieor iifix iint iior iiqint iiqnnt iishft iishftc iisign ilen imax0 imax1 imin0 imin1 imod index inint inot int int1 int2 int4 int8 iqint iqnint ior ishft ishftc isign isnan izext jiand jibclr jibits jibset jidim jidint jidnnt jieor jifix jint jior jiqint jiqnnt jishft jishftc jisign jmax0 jmax1 jmin0 jmin1 jmod jnint jnot jzext kiabs kiand kibclr kibits kibset kidim kidint kidnnt kieor kifix kind kint kior kishft kishftc kisign kmax0 kmax1 kmin0 kmin1 kmod knint knot kzext lbound leadz len len_trim lenlge lge lgt lle llt log log10 logical lshift malloc matmul max max0 max1 maxexponent maxloc maxval merge min min0 min1 minexponent minloc minval mod modulo mvbits nearest nint not nworkers number_of_processors pack popcnt poppar precision present product radix random random_number random_seed range real repeat reshape rrspacing rshift scale scan secnds selected_int_kind selected_real_kind set_exponent shape sign sin sind sinh size sizeof sngl snglq spacing spread sqrt sum system_clock tan tand tanh tiny transfer transpose trim ubound unpack verify’;
var keywords = ‘access action advance allocatable allocate apostrophe assign assignment associate asynchronous backspace bind blank blockdata call case character class close common complex contains continue cycle data deallocate decimal delim default dimension direct do dowhile double doubleprecision else elseif elsewhere encoding end endassociate endblockdata enddo endfile endforall endfunction endif endinterface endmodule endprogram endselect endsubroutine endtype endwhere entry eor equivalence err errmsg exist exit external file flush fmt forall form format formatted function go goto id if implicit in include inout integer inquire intent interface intrinsic iomsg iolength iostat kind len logical module name named namelist nextrec nml none nullify number only open opened operator optional out pad parameter pass pause pending pointer pos position precision print private program protected public quote read readwrite real rec recl recursive result return rewind save select selectcase selecttype sequential sign size stat status stop stream subroutine target then to type unformatted unit use value volatile wait where while write’;

var operators = ‘.not. .and. .or. .neq. .eq. .ge. .gt. .le. .lt. .ne.’;

this.regexList = [
{ regex: /!(.*)$/gm, css: 'comments' },
{ regex: SyntaxHighlighter.regexLib.singleQuotedString, css: 'string' },
{ regex: SyntaxHighlighter.regexLib.doubleQuotedString, css: 'string' },
{ regex: new RegExp(this.getKeywords(funcs), 'gmi'), css: 'color2' },
{ regex: new RegExp(this.getKeywords(operators), 'gmi'), css: 'color1' },
{ regex: new RegExp(this.getKeywords(keywords), 'gmi'), css: 'keyword' }
];
};
SyntaxHighlighter.brushes.Fortran.prototype = new SyntaxHighlighter.Highlighter();
SyntaxHighlighter.brushes.Fortran.aliases=['fortran'];

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Astor says:

May 21, 2010 at 07:53

Here is a brush for D programming language :

http://gist.github.com/408515

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Tyreal says:

May 13, 2010 at 20:53

I fixed a regular expression mistake in the Lua brush which is created by bear.mini.
Now this brush’s multiline comments highlight will be ok.

http://www.tyreal.net/wp-content/plugins/syntaxhighlighter/third-party-brushes/shBrushLua.js

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Tyreal says:

May 13, 2010 at 00:06

Sorry for the wrong link above.
This will be right to download it.

http://www.tyreal.net/wp-content/plugins/syntaxhighlighter/third-party-brushes/shBrushVerilog.js

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Seungjin Jung says:

May 9, 2010 at 07:56

Objective-C download link is incorrect. It is linked by Oxygene right that can be seen right below. Please, fix it for others.

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Steve says:

April 28, 2010 at 19:40

Is there a way to use the existing brushes to highlight MXML (as in Flex Builder) MXML is essentially XML which contains, among other things, script tags which contain actionscript3.

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Rob Whitby says:

April 23, 2010 at 22:41

Hi,

I’ve done a brush for XQuery, would be great to be included here.

http://www.xqueryhacker.com/2009/11/syntaxhighlighter-xquery-brush/

Thanks
Rob

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digitalMoto.net » Another round says:

April 23, 2010 at 21:00

[...] stuff to have everything you need to add to your headers. More brushes are available from UnderMyHat.org. So what do you think? Is this better or do I need to keep working on it? Categories: Software [...]

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Pierwszy wpis z Latexa says:

April 21, 2010 at 14:09

[...] udało mi się odnaleźć odpowiedni dodatek uzupełniający tę lukę. Na stronie http://www.undermyhat.org/blog/2009/09/list-of-brushes-syntaxhighligher/ można znaleźć wiele stworzonych przez użytkowników dodatków do SyntaxHighlighter. Wystrarczy [...]

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Tal Galili says:

April 21, 2010 at 11:00

Hi there,
Is there an easy way to turn a Geshi brush to a syntax highlighter brush ?

Thanks,
Tal

(p.s: consider adding the subscribe to comments plugin)

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Tyreal says:

April 20, 2010 at 00:49

Hi~Abel
I wrote a Verilog Brush,and I think there will be someone need it too,so I put it here for others to download

http://blog.tyreal.net/wp-content/plugins/syntaxhighlighter/third-party-brushes/shBrushVerilog.js

Hope you will like it.
Thank for your collecions,it’s really helpful for me.

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