TextLexer has no priority and comes late in alphabet so therefore

it will never be selected as default for *.txt files

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pygments/lexers/special.py b/pygments/lexers/special.py
index d3a168e7..e66a01cf 100644
--- a/pygments/lexers/special.py
+++ b/pygments/lexers/special.py
@@ -27,10 +27,13 @@ class TextLexer(Lexer):
     aliases = ['text']
     filenames = ['*.txt']
     mimetypes = ['text/plain']
+    priority = 0.01
 
     def get_tokens_unprocessed(self, text):
         yield 0, Text, text
 
+    def analyse_text(text):
+        return TextLexer.priority
 
 _ttype_cache = {}