Also, a fun feature of the codeblock backticks is that you can specify the highlighting language within the codeblock. Just put the name of the available script/programming language in the top line, where the opening backticks are:
here, I started the codeblock with: ``` bash
#!/bin/bash
# comment
varA=$1
varB=$2
echo "++ The variables are: ${varA} ${varB}"
here, I started the codeblock with: ``` python
# comment
varA = 'some string'
varB = '''another string'''
print("++ The variables are: {varA} {varB}".format(varA=varA, varB=varB))
The current list of available names are:
The default color interpretation is 'auto', which may be more/less useful.
--pt