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+# Contributions to alecthomas/chroma
+
+A general purpose syntax highlighter in pure Go
+
+This repository holds only my commits to the upstream project, with their original author, date and diff.
+Each of my commits is preceded by a snapshot of the upstream files it touched, so every diff shows exactly what I changed.
+
+## Merged pull requests
+
+- [fix(lexers): recognize TypeScript binary, octal and exponent literals](https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma/pull/1396) (2026-10-15)