Disable Jekyll’s default syntax highlighter Rouge

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By default, Jekyll has Rouge syntax highlighter. In some cases, you may want to disable it. To get Rouge disabled in Jekyll, just do the following.

• Open the _config.yml file located at the root directory.
• Add the following line:

highlighter: none

• To disable Rouge on the website which is hosted on Github Pages add the following line:

markdown: kramdown
kramdown:
   syntax_highlighter_opts:
      disable : true