docs: Improve discussion of syntax highlighting.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@170145 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/docs/SphinxQuickstartTemplate.rst b/docs/SphinxQuickstartTemplate.rst
index 1c03c979f0..b0002bacb9 100644
--- a/docs/SphinxQuickstartTemplate.rst
+++ b/docs/SphinxQuickstartTemplate.rst
@@ -107,17 +107,32 @@ You can make blocks of code like this:
      return 0
    }
 
-For a shell session, use a ``console`` code block:
+For a shell session, use a ``console`` code block (some existing docs use
+``bash``):
 
 .. code-block:: console
 
    $ echo "Goodbye cruel world!"
    $ rm -rf /
 
-If you need to show LLVM IR use the ``llvm`` code block.  Code blocks of ``c``,
-``c++``, ``objc``, ``bash``, ``makefile`` kinds are supported.
+If you need to show LLVM IR use the ``llvm`` code block.
 
-You can show preformatted text without any syntax highlighting like this:
+.. code-block:: llvm
+
+   define i32 @test1() {
+   entry:
+     ret i32 0
+   }
+
+Some other common code blocks you might need are ``c``, ``objc``, ``make``,
+and ``cmake``. If you need something beyond that, you can look at the `full
+list`_ of supported code blocks.
+
+.. _`full list`: http://pygments.org/docs/lexers/
+
+However, don't waste time fiddling with syntax highlighting when you could
+be adding meaningful content. When in doubt, show preformatted text
+without any syntax highlighting like this:
 
 ::
 
@@ -137,8 +152,6 @@ You can show preformatted text without any syntax highlighting like this:
                          .++:..
                           ...
 
-One can also use a ``none`` code block to turn off highlighting.
-
 Hopefully you won't need to be this deep
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