<p>Shell scripting plays a big part in Unix system administration, and it would be nice if syntax highlighting was enabled for this sort of code block.</p>

<p>An personally, I like the idea of syntax highlighting for log fragments, or Apache Configuration fragments, etc, as long as the highlighting works correctly. Although the syntax highlighter doesn't always work correctly.</p>

<p>It would be nice if we could provide hints to the syntax highlighter, as proposed at <a href="http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/981/syntax-highlighting-language-hints">syntax-highlighting-language-hints</a>.</p>