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		tietjens 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Obsidian Bases You can also create a code block in markdown and then write the language type at the top. This also creates highlighting. ‘’’go {your code} ‘’’

profsummergig 6 months ago [–]

Thanks for this tip.

I've seen this feature off and on in some online code editors. I didn't know this was a (universal?) Markdown feature. Is it supposed to work universally in all Markdown editors (e.g. VSCode's Markdown view)?

tietjens 5 months ago | [–]

I know it works in Obsidian. I believe it also works in VSCode.

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