Index: mimeview/pygments_renderer.py
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--- mimeview/pygments_renderer.py	(revision 5537)
+++ mimeview/pygments_renderer.py	(working copy)
@@ -56,6 +56,16 @@
         to override the default quality ratio used by the
         Pygments render.""")
 
+    pygments_options = ListOption('mimeviewer', 'pygments_options',
+        '', doc=
+        """List of options to be passed to lexers.
+
+        For each, a tuple `mode:option` has to be specified,
+        for example `php:startinline=1`.  To specify more than
+        one option, simply repeat the mode in the style,
+        `php:a=1,php:b=2`
+        """)
+
     expand_tabs = True
     returns_source = True
 
@@ -179,8 +189,20 @@
             Mimeview(self.env).configured_modes_mapping('pygments')
         )
 
+        self._options = {}
+        for t, opt in [x.split(':', 1) for x in self.pygments_options]:
+            opts = self._options.get(t)
+            if not opts:
+                opts = {}
+                self._options[t] = opts
+            key, value = opt.split('=', 1)
+            opts[str(key)] = value
+
     def _generate(self, language, content):
-        lexer = get_lexer_by_name(language, stripnl=False)
+        self.log.debug("Pygments renderering for language=%s" % language)
+        opts = self._options.get(language, {})
+        opts['stripnl'] = False
+        lexer = get_lexer_by_name(language, **opts)
         return GenshiHtmlFormatter().generate(lexer.get_tokens(content))