Using ``` to define code sections [duplicate]

Question

My apologies if this is asked somewhere else, or if this isn't the right place to ask it.

One of the elements of Github flavored markdown that I really appreciate is the ability to use a triple backtick (```) to call out entire blocks of code. Unfortunately, SO's version of markdown doesn't support this, and sometimes it's really painful to have to go in and manually add four spaces before a whole bunch of lines of code.

Am I missing something here? Is there another way to do this?

Answer 1

There is another way to do this:

Paste the code, highlight it, and hit Ctrl+K or hit the "Code Sample" icon in the toolbar (the one that looks like {}).