This is the question I'm referring to: the answer I provided contains some valid C code.
It is intended with 8 space chars.
The code is not colored as it does usually (at least on stackoverflow).
Did something change - or SF does not provide coloring like SO does?
If the question had been tagged c, your code block would have worked. But, it wasn't.
You could add the tag, I suppose... But that seems lame, since the question wasn't about C.
So your next best option is to simply force syntax highlighting for your code block, by prefixing it with a special comment:
<!-- language: lang-c -->
... code goes here, indented by four spaces as usual ...
I've done this for you. Enjoy!
We turned off code-coloring because text enclosed in code brackets here is so very rarely something SO has a dissector for. Things like umpty lines of syslog entries, random java stack-dumps in application-specific log-files, or RFC quotations don't react well to syntax-coloring for most programming languages. We have a few tags where they're turned on, powershell is one such I believe, but in general we don't syntax-color here.
Syntax highlighting of programming languages really doesn't make a whole lot of sense on a non-programming site. SF is not SO, so don't expect things to work identically.
