---
name: "chroma-v2"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "golang-chroma-v2"
version: "2.14.0-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/chroma-v2"
---

# chroma-v2(1)

general purpose syntax highlighting program

## NAME

**chroma-v2** - general purpose syntax highlighting program

## SYNOPSIS

**chroma-v2** \[*options*\] *files* ...

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the chroma-v2 command.

## OPTIONS

This program follow the usual GNU command-line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (\`-'). A summary of options is included below.

- –help

  Show context-sensitive help.

- –list

  List lexers, styles and formatters.

- –unbuffered

  Do not buffer output.

- –trace

  Trace lexer states as they are traversed.

- –check

  Do not format, check for tokenization errors instead.

- –filename=*FILENAME*

  Filename to use for selecting a lexer when reading from stdin.

- \-l, –lexer=autodetect

  Lexer to use when formatting.

- \-s, –style=swapoff

  Style to use for formatting.

- \-f, –formatter=terminal

  Formatter to use.

- –html

  Enable HTML mode (equivalent to \`**–formatter html**').

- –html-prefix=*PREFIX*

  HTML CSS class prefix.

- –html-styles

  Output HTML CSS styles.

- –html-only

  Output HTML fragment.

- –html-inline-styles

  Output HTML with inline styles (no classes).

- –html-tab-width=8

  Set the HTML tab width.

- –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.

- –version

  Show application version.

## BUGS

See GitHub Issues: \<https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma/issues\>