Disable Syntax Highlighting?

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Is there a way to have a code block (ie tree backticks) without syntax highlighting? Like a “none” language? Eg for pseudocode or the like without defined syntax.

for each file in folder
   do stuff
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You can delete all the entries in the setting highlighted languages

Also using the 4 spaces to indent avoids highlighting.

for each file in folder
   do stuff
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Umm, no, that’s not what I had in mind - I like the highlighting in general, I just want a way to disable it in a particular case.

It seems like specifying no language, or any language, or an invalid language all get some for of syntax highlighting.

Maybe there is some other setting I have misconfigured?

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Yes, it tries to auto-detect a language.

You will want to use the 4 spaces to indent if you don’t want highlighting. (see my edited post above)

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You simply hint the block with text

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So as in three back ticks and the “text”?

I see that works here, but not on my forum, is that something recent? Or do I need to add it as a language?

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```text
 foo
```

is what you need to do, that’s what “hinting” means

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Yes, “text” was what I needed to know. And it didn’t work on my site for the same reason I failed at code blocks last time - four back ticks. Sigh.

Thanks.

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