Does the SQL language hint not work on this site (perhaps because it is in beta)? I tried adding <!-- language: sql --> to a question, as per the meta information on language hints, but it didn’t change the formatting at all. Am I missing something?
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Here's a more recent example of syntax highlighting inaction.– Nick ChammasSep 22, 2011 at 18:46
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related request for a global setting here– Jack DouglasAug 26, 2012 at 17:41
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I have added default style selections to a few of the tags that had no selection before. Let me know if there are others that appear to need styling.
Styling was added to the following tags:
Moderators do have the ability to change the default lang for highlighting per tag - just visit the tag info page:
https://dba.stackexchange.com/tags/sql/info
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Well when we added the manual hint it did not work. What more needs to be done specifically?– jcolebrand ModSep 28, 2011 at 23:27
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@jcole as Geoff said, you need to click through on the tag info link and look for this text
Code Language (used for syntax highlighting): [list of languages] [save]Sep 28, 2011 at 23:37 -
So it turns out the reason it never worked initially was because it wasn't turned on per-site when this site asked for it (got overlooked), nor is it turned on by default per-site at launch.– jcolebrand ModSep 29, 2011 at 2:16
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My last answer shows syntax highlighting just the way I would expect and hope - ie nearly right :-) Thanks for the update. Sep 29, 2011 at 9:52