<p>There has been this feature request on Meta.SE since 2012: <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/123274/">Add syntax highlighting for the MATLAB language</a></p>
<p>In May 2016 it was marked as [status-completed] and the following answer was posted by an SE admin:</p>
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<p>Matlab syntax support is rolling in.</p>
<p>This is basic syntax support without keywords, as these add a lot to the size of the highlighter and do not gzip well at all.</p>
<p>Still - comments should be comments and basic highlighting should work as expected.</p>
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<p>This is great. I verified some time ago that it also works on our site: Matlab code gets highlighted correctly if I preface it with <code>&lt;!-- language: lang-matlab --&gt;</code>.</p>
<p><strong>However, it does not work automatically when a thread carries a <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/matlab" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;matlab&#39;" rel="tag">matlab</a> tag.</strong> I noticed it now <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/239075">in this question</a>. It seems that it <em>does</em> work on StackOverflow though, or at least that's how I interpret the following comment:</p>
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<p>\o/ It's so working! All my posts suddenly became gorgeous! – Adriaan May 20 at 15:59</p>
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<p>So it might be that the automatic highlighting for <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/matlab" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;matlab&#39;" rel="tag">matlab</a> has not been rolled in specifically on CrossValidated. Hence I post it as a bug.</p>
