2013-03-20 2013-03-20 ■ GFM 16:41 https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown Fenced code blocks Markdown converts text with four spaces at the front of each line to code blocks. GFM supports that, but we also support fenced blocks. Just wrap your code blocks in ``` and you won't need to indent manually to trigger a code block. http://octopress.org/docs/blogging/code/