Choose a language or text format to make source easier to scan while preserving the exact submitted text behind copy and raw views.
If one syntax mode does not clearly fit, use the plain-text paste guide. Highlighting should help people read the artifact; it should never guess at mixed content or imply that code was validated.
These curated pages explain the context, redaction checks, and paste settings that matter for each language - Not only the color theme.
General notes, prose, and mixed output.
Read the Plain text guide →Scripts, tracebacks, and data workflows.
Read the Python guide →Browser and Node.js snippets.
Read the JavaScript guide →Typed web application code.
Read the TypeScript guide →API payloads and structured fixtures.
Read the JSON guide →Configuration and deployment manifests.
Read the YAML guide →Commands, scripts, and terminal output.
Read the Bash / Shell guide →Queries, schemas, and query plans.
Read the SQL guide →Markup and document fragments.
Read the HTML guide →Stylesheets and layout examples.
Read the CSS guide →JVM applications and stack traces.
Read the Java guide →.NET snippets and diagnostics.
Read the C# guide →Native code and compiler output.
Read the C / C++ guide →Services, tools, and goroutine traces.
Read the Go guide →Systems code and compiler diagnostics.
Read the Rust guide →README content and formatted notes.
Read the Markdown guide →Patches and change review.
Read the Diff guide →Documents, feeds, and configuration.
Read the XML guide →Infrastructure as code.
Read the Terraform guide →Requests, responses, and headers.
Read the HTTP guide →A syntax mode identifies tokens for display. It does not compile code, validate configuration against an application schema, or make untrusted source safe to execute.
Language selection never changes who can access a paste. Start unlisted, choose a task-sized expiration, remove sensitive values, and use client-side encryption when server-readable storage is inappropriate.
Compare paste privacy controls →These modes are available directly in the editor. They are listed here for feature discovery, but do not link to thin guide URLs or compete with the reviewed language pages above.