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Shane Madden
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Vote: What level of automatic code highlighting do we want?

Now that have code highlighting enabled, we need to determine how 'automatic' it should be.

The code highlighting engine works in two ways:

  1. Automatic inference of the language in use via the tags on the question, and
  2. Manual specification of the language in a code block, overriding any language behavior on a question tag

Currently, we have highlighting enabled for a large number of tags, a default set from Stack Overflow or some such. We've already disabled automatic highlighting on a small handful (, , ) due to awkward highlighting on questions, but we need to decide what approach to take for a consistent behavior across all tags.

Shane Madden
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