As in GitHub Markdown Dialect, Bear supports code blocks and syntax highlighting for over 250 languages (listed below). You simply need to specify the programming language after the first block marker.

An example:

How to paste code snippets

If you are looking for a quick way to insert a code snippet with syntax highlighting into Bear, you can use this quick trick:

• Copy the lines of code
• Select a note in Bear
• Select the Paste From Code functionality, see below

Mac

Right click and select Paste From → Code.

iOS

Tap on the note and select Paste From... → From Code on the edit menu.

Some of the supported languages for syntax highlighting and their abbreviations:

• ABAP
• ActionScript
• ADA
• Apache
• APL
• AppleScript
• Arduino
• ARFF
• AsciiDoc
• ASP.NET - aspnet
• AutoHotkey
• AutoIt
• Bash
• BASIC
• Batch
• Bison
• Brainfuck
• Bro
• C / C++
• C# - csharp
• CoffeeScript - coffee
• Clojure - clj
• Crystal
• CSP
• CSS
• D
• Dart
• Diff
• Django/Jinja2 - django
• Docker
• Eiffel
• Elixir
• Elm
• ERB
• Erlang
• F# - fsharp
• Flow
• Fortran
• Fountain
• GEDCOM
• Gherkin
• Git
• GLSL
• GraphQL
• Groovy
• GO - golang
• Haml
• Handlebars
• Haskell
• Haxe
• HTTP
• HTML
• Icon
• Inform 7 - inform7
• Ini
• Io
• J
• Java
• Javascript - js
• JSON
• Julia
• Keyman
• Kotlin
• Less
• Liquid
• Livescript
• LOLCODE
• Lua
• Makefile
• Markdown - md
• MATLAB - mat
• MEL
• Mizar
• Monkey
• NAJS
• NASM
• ngnix
• nim
• nix
• Objective-C - objc
• Ocam
• OpenCL
• Oz
• Pascal
• Perl
• PHP
• PL/SQL - sql plsql
• PowerShell
• Prolog
• Pug
• Puppet
• Pure
• Python - py
• Q
• Qore - qore
• R
• React JSX - jsx
• Ren’py - renpy
• reST - rest
• Ruby
• Rust
• SAS
• SASS
• Scala - sc
• SCSS
• Scheme
• Shell - sh
• SmallTalk
• Smarty
• Swift
• TAP
• Tcl
• Textile
• Tex/Latex - latex
• Twig
• TypeScript
• VB.NET - vbnet
• Velocity
• Verilog
• VHDL
• vim
• Visual Basic - visual-basic
• WebAssembly - wasm
• Wiki markup - wiki
• Xeora
• Xojo
• XQuery
• XML
• YAML