Background

Yesterday evening, I noticed a little issue with WordPress “SyntaxHighlighter Code Block”.

It manifests when one tries to highlight very short code blocks.

Example

Alias

ll

Syntax

Image

Output

ll

Sample -01

Image

Output

ll

Sample -02

Image

Output

--ll alias
ll

Summary

See, even, WordPress barks at short code.

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