diff --git a/lib/packages/docutils/highlite.nim b/lib/packages/docutils/highlite.nim
index f8376f46c3..7542b88018 100644
--- a/lib/packages/docutils/highlite.nim
+++ b/lib/packages/docutils/highlite.nim
@@ -301,6 +301,8 @@ proc nimNextToken(g: var GeneralTokenizer, keywords: openArray[string] = @[]) =
g.kind = nimGetKeyword(id)
elif isKeyword(keywords, id) >= 0:
g.kind = gtKeyword
+ else:
+ g.kind = gtIdentifier
of '0':
inc(pos)
case g.buf[pos]
diff --git a/tests/stdlib/trstgen.nim b/tests/stdlib/trstgen.nim
index 6253e7146d..ae980afd80 100644
--- a/tests/stdlib/trstgen.nim
+++ b/tests/stdlib/trstgen.nim
@@ -1629,8 +1629,8 @@ suite "RST/Code highlight":
"""
- let expected = """def f_name(arg=42):
- print(f"{arg}")
"""
+ let expected = """def f_name(arg=42):
+ print(f"{arg}")
"""
check strip(rstToHtml(pythonCode, {}, newStringTable(modeCaseSensitive))) ==
strip(expected)