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  • I think the current solution with the tag intelligence is a big improvement to what it was before. Especially VB code will look much better now. The only downside is non-language specific questions, that might get answers in VB.NET. Commented Jan 26, 2011 at 12:03
  • @awe indeed it will be formatted as a comment, unless you mix language tags and force default inference again.. looks fine to me, see stackoverflow.com/questions/4801650/… Commented Jan 26, 2011 at 12:19
  • Can we get this documented in the help pages? I've been looking around for this for a while and this is the first place I've found it, so if it is in help pages somewhere it's not visible enough. Commented May 31, 2012 at 2:10
  • @old you somehow missed it, see meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help#syntax-highlighting -- same on all Stack Exchange sites Commented May 31, 2012 at 5:17
  • @Jeff, my bad. I was looking for something related to "language" and I was looking on Ask Different where it's near the bottom. Commented May 31, 2012 at 6:53
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    Great, thanks. But why do all the magic strings start lang-? Commented Apr 12, 2013 at 21:07
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    Thank you. FYI of all the solutions described here, only the <!-- language-all: lang-tag --> option worked for me. :/ Commented May 25, 2013 at 20:39
  • Is there any highlighter for DOS/Win shell scripts? Commented Jul 30, 2013 at 6:57
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    I wish we had this functionality built-in into post editor on SO. I always end up googling this and copy/pasting from this answer, which is counter-productive. Commented Sep 12, 2013 at 18:35
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    It's also far too sensitive - <!--language-all: ... --> doesn't work - no space before language. I end up at this post every single time I need this. Very frustrating that it's not in the editor and/or more forgiving Commented Nov 4, 2013 at 9:47
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    OMG I forget this thing every time... I've been back on this page for 145th time. They should bring some UI for language selection. Commented May 19, 2014 at 19:16
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    I suggest using simpler markup like GitHub's triple backtick - language or similar. I also have to google this every time. Commented Oct 28, 2014 at 15:41
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    I've googled this question over 10 times now. This syntax is impossible to remember for some reason. Can't remember if its lang or language, can't remember if it's lang-python language-python lang-py python-lang or just python or some other thing. At least I can remember that its <!-- --> and not <-- --!> Commented Jan 29, 2020 at 9:27
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    Where is a list of all the available language tags? Commented Feb 26, 2020 at 22:00
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    Google Code Pretty is no longer maintained: github.com/googlearchive/code-prettify/commit/…. Since there are still bugs which won't be fixed anymore, any plans to migrate to a different highlighter? Commented Jun 5, 2020 at 15:16