Sphinx restructuredtext code appears as mailto hyperlink

Question

I am trying to write documentation in rst and build webpages using Sphinx. The issue I am having is that code with the @ symbol in it is turned into a mailto link by Sphinx.

This is the command prompt:

    pi@raspberrypi ~ $

How do I stop this?

Answer 1

Try this:

This is the command prompt:

.. code-block:: bash

    pi@raspberrypi ~ $