Pygments does not need to be installed. Fixes #1099 #1119

site/docs/installation.md

@@ -50,10 +50,8 @@ community can improve the experience for everyone.
 
 There are a number of (optional) extra features that Jekyll supports that you
 may want to install, depending on how you plan to use Jekyll. These extras
-include syntax highlighting of code snippets using
-[Pygments](http://pygments.org/), LaTeX support, and the use of alternative
-content rendering engines. Check out [the extras page](../extras) for more
-information.
+include LaTeX support, and the use of alternative content rendering engines.
+Check out [the extras page](../extras) for more information.
 
 <div class="note">
   <h5>ProTip™: Enable Syntax Highlighting</h5>

site/docs/posts.md

@@ -138,8 +138,8 @@ If you don't like the automatically-generated post excerpt, it can be overridden
 ## Highlighting code snippets
 
 Jekyll also has built-in support for syntax highlighting of code snippets using
-[Pygments](../extras), and including a code snippet in any post is easy. Just
-use the dedicated Liquid tag as follows:
+Pygments, and including a code snippet in any post is easy. Just use the
+dedicated Liquid tag as follows:
 
 {% highlight text %}
 {% raw %}{% highlight ruby %}{% endraw %}

site/docs/templates.md

@@ -166,9 +166,8 @@ root of your source directory. This will embed the contents of
 
 Jekyll has built in support for syntax highlighting of [over 100
 languages](http://pygments.org/languages/) thanks to
-[Pygments](http://pygments.org/). In order to take advantage of this you’ll need
-to have Pygments installed, and the `pygmentize` binary must be in your `$PATH`.
-When you run Jekyll, make sure you run it with [Pygments enabled](../extras).
+[Pygments](http://pygments.org/). When you run Jekyll, make sure you run it
+with `pygments` set to `true` in your configuration file.
 
 To render a code block with syntax highlighting, surround your code as follows: