What steps will reproduce the bug?

1. bat x.md x.pp

What happens?

I expected to see the code block inside the markdown highlighted as per the second file in the above example.

How did you install bat?

brew install bat

nolan:nci-helper-scripts callie$ bat x.md x.pp --diagnostic

Software version

bat 0.24.0

Operating system

macOS 15.2 (Darwin 24.2.0)

Command-line

bat x.md x.pp --diagnostic

Environment variables

SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash
PAGER=<not set>
LESS=<not set>
LANG=C
LC_ALL=<not set>
BAT_PAGER=<not set>
BAT_PAGING=<not set>
BAT_CACHE_PATH=<not set>
BAT_CONFIG_PATH=<not set>
BAT_OPTS=<not set>
BAT_STYLE=<not set>
BAT_TABS=<not set>
BAT_THEME=<not set>
XDG_CONFIG_HOME=<not set>
XDG_CACHE_HOME=<not set>
COLORTERM=truecolor
NO_COLOR=<not set>
MANPAGER=<not set>

System Config file

Could not read contents of '/etc/bat/config': No such file or directory (os error 2).

Config file

--theme="Dracula"

Custom assets metadata

Could not read contents of '/Users/callie/.cache/bat/metadata.yaml': No such file or directory (os error 2).

Custom assets

'/Users/callie/.cache/bat' not found

Compile time information

• Profile: release
• Target triple: x86_64-apple-darwin
• Family: unix
• OS: macos
• Architecture: x86_64
• Pointer width: 64
• Endian: little
• CPU features: cmpxchg16b,fxsr,pclmulqdq,popcnt,sse,sse2,sse3,sse4.1,sse4.2,ssse3
• Host: x86_64-apple-darwin

Less version

> less --version
less 581.2 (POSIX regular expressions)
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