In your opinion, Which code viewer is better?
this is the code viewer of the Stack:
and this is another code viewer:
Really Why doesn't the Stack has a good code viewer?
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1\$\begingroup\$ Related: meta.electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/340/… \$\endgroup\$– jippieCommented Jul 16, 2014 at 18:38
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You have two problems. The first is that you're confusing StackExchange with an IDE.
The code highlighting doesn't work on your question here because you have put a whole lot of relatively worthless tags on your question instead of one that defines the language you are using. For example, if you used c instead of each individual microcontroller you used, you wouldn't have an issue. I have changed your tags and now syntax highlighting shows up.
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1\$\begingroup\$ WoW! Thanks, the stack is really clever! \$\endgroup\$– RohCommented Jul 17, 2014 at 3:14
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1\$\begingroup\$ Ultimately the purpose of tags is primarily to organize topics by relevance, so one should really use the language hinting code rather than a tag if highlighting is the only goal. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jul 18, 2014 at 18:14
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2\$\begingroup\$ @Roh A better way to enable appropriate syntax highlighting (code coloring) is to prefix the code block with
<!-- language: lang-c -->. Here's an example (you should look at the text in edit mode). Full list of syntax highlighting options here. \$\endgroup\$– Nick Alexeev ModCommented Jul 19, 2014 at 21:25