Is there a github markdown language identifier for Common Lisp on Atom?

Question

I'm trying to write some code blocks in Common-Lisp using GitHub Markdown on Atom, but if I write

```common-lisp

```cl

it doesn't highlight the syntax.

Answer 1

Using the master list located in the github repo, we find common-lisp here: https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/languages.yml#L743

So you need to use: ```common-lisp or ```lisp

for common-lisp in Github Markdown. If this does not show up in your Atom editor during the preview, then you need to install the language-lisp package.