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google-code-prettify seems dead

The code formating engine used by SO (google-code-prettify) seems dead (lasts two commits have been made on sep 2013 & mar 2014). As stated on this post, each code-formatting request have to be ...
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5 votes
0 answers
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Python tag based syntax highlighting [duplicate]

Currently the python tag sets syntax highlighting to python, but the python-2.7 tag does not. Should this be the case?
Matt's user avatar
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4 votes
1 answer
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How to insert code in stack overflow [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I format my code blocks? I did the following: I wrote my question, paste my code, then click {} from the format toolbar. My code turns to grey-colored, but is not ...
Jury A's user avatar
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2 votes
1 answer
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MVVM tag language hint seems off

Been wondering about this for a while now, the mvvm tag seems to have an XML-language-hint. Here is an example question which has both C# and XAML code, as one can see the C# is also in XML ...
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2 votes
2 answers
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Did I do my syntax highlighting wrong? If so, what is the right way? [duplicate]

I tried setting a syntax type based on Jeff's Hints, but it doesn't seem to be working properly. Did I do it wrong? https://stackoverflow.com/a/8546141/124069
Chase Florell's user avatar
7 votes
3 answers
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How to highlight comments in stackoverflow [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to use formatting in comments? Its being more than a month since I started using Stack Overflow, and yet I haven't figured out how to highlight words on the comments that I ...
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4 votes
1 answer
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Syntax highlighting misinterprets shell code as C

For a post that is tagged with shell-script items (bash) and not c/c++/java, I was surprised when my answer to a question was shown mostly in grey (interpreted as a comment) when it hit the following ...
nhed's user avatar
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3 votes
1 answer
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My syntax highlighting stopped working on Stack Overflow [duplicate]

All of a sudden, my syntax highlighting stopped working on Stack Overflow which can be seen in this answer. And now, even if I edit that post, try to post a question or an answer, there's no syntax ...
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