diff --git a/pelican/rstdirectives.py b/pelican/rstdirectives.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 500c8578..00000000
--- a/pelican/rstdirectives.py
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@@ -1,90 +0,0 @@
-import re
-
-from docutils import nodes, utils
-from docutils.parsers.rst import Directive, directives, roles
-
-from pygments import highlight
-from pygments.formatters import HtmlFormatter
-from pygments.lexers import TextLexer, get_lexer_by_name
-
-import pelican.settings as pys
-
-
-class Pygments(Directive):
-    """ Source code syntax highlighting.
-    """
-    required_arguments = 1
-    optional_arguments = 0
-    final_argument_whitespace = True
-    option_spec = {
-        'anchorlinenos': directives.flag,
-        'classprefix': directives.unchanged,
-        'hl_lines': directives.unchanged,
-        'lineanchors': directives.unchanged,
-        'linenos': directives.unchanged,
-        'linenospecial': directives.nonnegative_int,
-        'linenostart': directives.nonnegative_int,
-        'linenostep': directives.nonnegative_int,
-        'lineseparator': directives.unchanged,
-        'linespans': directives.unchanged,
-        'nobackground': directives.flag,
-        'nowrap': directives.flag,
-        'tagsfile': directives.unchanged,
-        'tagurlformat': directives.unchanged,
-    }
-    has_content = True
-
-    def run(self):
-        self.assert_has_content()
-        try:
-            lexer = get_lexer_by_name(self.arguments[0])
-        except ValueError:
-            # no lexer found - use the text one instead of an exception
-            lexer = TextLexer()
-
-        # Fetch the defaults
-        if pys.PYGMENTS_RST_OPTIONS is not None:
-            for k, v in pys.PYGMENTS_RST_OPTIONS.items():
-                # Locally set options overrides the defaults
-                if k not in self.options:
-                    self.options[k] = v
-
-        if ('linenos' in self.options and
-                self.options['linenos'] not in ('table', 'inline')):
-            if self.options['linenos'] == 'none':
-                self.options.pop('linenos')
-            else:
-                self.options['linenos'] = 'table'
-
-        for flag in ('nowrap', 'nobackground', 'anchorlinenos'):
-            if flag in self.options:
-                self.options[flag] = True
-
-        # noclasses should already default to False, but just in case...
-        formatter = HtmlFormatter(noclasses=False, **self.options)
-        parsed = highlight('\n'.join(self.content), lexer, formatter)
-        return [nodes.raw('', parsed, format='html')]
-
-
-directives.register_directive('code-block', Pygments)
-directives.register_directive('sourcecode', Pygments)
-
-
-_abbr_re = re.compile(r'\((.*)\)$', re.DOTALL)
-
-
-class abbreviation(nodes.Inline, nodes.TextElement):
-    pass
-
-
-def abbr_role(typ, rawtext, text, lineno, inliner, options={}, content=[]):
-    text = utils.unescape(text)
-    m = _abbr_re.search(text)
-    if m is None:
-        return [abbreviation(text, text)], []
-    abbr = text[:m.start()].strip()
-    expl = m.group(1)
-    return [abbreviation(abbr, abbr, explanation=expl)], []
-
-
-roles.register_local_role('abbr', abbr_role)