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On Super User syntax highlighting is turned off. But there are questions on Super User where syntax highlighting can be helpful. Therefore I suggest that syntax highlighting is made possible to enable via prettify language codes (but turned off by default).

Having this feature would mean that a prettify language code, which are certain types of HTML comments, has to be inserted in a post for it to syntax highlighted. For example to syntax highlight a lisp code block in a question the following would have to be inserted before the block:

<!-- language: lang-lisp -->

There are many questions on Super User that would benefit from syntax highlighting. Here are two examples of tags with many questions:

• emacs questions often contains lisp code (on the third page of popular tags).
• bash questions often contains shell scripts (on the first page of popular tags).

A similar request was made on Ask Ubuntu and they got syntax highlighting enabled.

On Super User syntax highlighting is turned off. But there are questions on Super User where syntax highlighting can be helpful. Therefore I suggest that syntax highlighting is made possible to enable via prettify language codes (but turned off by default).

Having this feature would mean that a prettify language code, which are certain types of HTML comments, has to be inserted in a post for it to syntax highlighted. For example to syntax highlight a lisp code block in a question the following would have to be inserted before the block:

<!-- language: lang-lisp -->

There are many questions on Super User that would benefit from syntax highlighting. Here are two examples of tags with many questions:

• emacs questions often contains lisp code (on the third page of popular tags).
• bash questions often contains shell scripts (on the first page of popular tags).

A similar request was made on Ask Ubuntu and they got syntax highlighting enabled.

On Super User syntax highlighting is turned off. But there are questions on Super User where syntax highlighting can be helpful. Therefore I suggest that syntax highlighting is made possible to enable via prettify language codes (but turned off by default).

Having this feature would mean that a prettify language code, which are certain types of HTML comments, has to be inserted in a post for it to syntax highlighted. For example to syntax highlight a lisp code block in a question the following would have to be inserted before the block:

<!-- language: lang-lisp -->

There are many questions on Super User that would benefit from syntax highlighting. Here are two examples of tags with many questions:

• emacs questions often contains lisp code (on the third page of popular tags).
• bash questions often contains shell scripts (on the first page of popular tags).

A similar request was made on Ask Ubuntu and they got syntax highlighting enabled.

On Super User syntax highlighting is turned off. But there are questions on Super User where syntax highlighting can be helpful. Therefore I suggest that syntax highlighting is made possible to enable via prettify language codes (but turned off by default).

Having this feature would mean that a prettify language code, which are certain types of HTML comments, has to be inserted in a post for it to syntax highlighted. For example to syntax highlight a lisp code block in a question the following would have to be inserted before the block:

<!-- language: lang-lisp -->

There are many questions on Super User that would benefit from syntax highlighting. Here are two examples of tags with many questions:

• emacs questions often contains lisp code (on the third page of popular tags).
• bash questions often contains shell scripts (on the first page of popular tags).

A similar request was made on Ask Ubuntu and they got syntax highlighting enabled.

On Super User syntax highlighting is turned off. But there are questions on Super User where syntax highlighting can be helpful. Therefore I suggest that syntax highlighting is made possible to enable via prettify language codes (but turned off by default).

Having this feature would mean that a prettify language code, which are certain types of HTML comments, has to be inserted in a post for it to syntax highlighted. For example to syntax highlight a lisp code block in a question the following would have to be inserted before the block:

<!-- language: lang-lisp -->

There are many questions on Super User that would benefit from syntax highlighting. Here are two examples of tags with many questions:

• emacs questions often contains lisp code (on the third page of popular tags).
• bash questions often contains shell scripts (on the first page of popular tags).

A similar request was made on Ask Ubuntu and they got syntax highlighting enabled.

On Super User syntax highlighting is turned off. But there are questions on Super User where syntax highlighting can be helpful. Therefore I suggest that syntax highlighting is made possible to enable via prettify language codes (but turned off by default).

Having this feature would mean that a prettify language code, which are certain types of HTML comments, has to be inserted in a post for it to syntax highlighted. For example to syntax highlight a lisp code block in a question the following would have to be inserted before the block:

<!-- language: lang-lisp -->

There are many questions on Super User that would benefit from syntax highlighting. Here are two examples of tags with many questions:

• emacs questions often contains lisp code (on the third page of popular tags).
• bash questions often contains shell scripts (on the first page of popular tags).

A similar request was made on Ask Ubuntu and they got syntax highlighting enabled.