# HG changeset patch
# User Franz Glasner <fzglas.hg@dom66.de>
# Date 1778186153 -7200
# Node ID d475f5e252eb2016b707108e3f45b90837617477
# Parent  66d49e49b06b36891e6ac4f6a50a1c9bc1b60ba9
Document an alternate variant to apply options to existing lexers

diff -r 66d49e49b06b -r d475f5e252eb docs/details-algpseudocode.rst
--- a/docs/details-algpseudocode.rst	Thu May 07 16:25:54 2026 +0200
+++ b/docs/details-algpseudocode.rst	Thu May 07 22:35:53 2026 +0200
@@ -383,7 +383,13 @@
 ===========================
 
 Defining lexers with non-default options in `Sphinx`_ can be done in its
-configuration file :file:`conf.py`:
+configuration file :file:`conf.py`.
+
+The first option is to apply the Sphinx config value ``highlight_options``
+properly. An existing lexer can be customized by options.
+
+A more flexible alternative is to define a new lexer in the Sphinx
+application. The very same lexer class can be used with different options:
 
 .. code-block:: python