I just posted this answer: https://sitecore.stackexchange.com/a/82/163, but my code block (prefixed with 4 spaces, just like on stackoverflow) didn't get shown.
As a workaround I used the backticks to get it to show, but code formatting support should be enabled on sitecore.se.
This is because your code is being interpreted as part of the list item just above it. According to the Markdown list description:
To put a code block within a list item, the code block needs to be indented twice—8 spaces or two tabs:
* A list item with a code block: <code goes here>
As far as I can tell, the only way to signal to our Markdown parser that the code is not supposed to be part of the list is to add another paragraph of text between the last list item and the code:
- Configure DNS appropriately.
- Add a binding in IIS for each hostname.
- Modify the config file
App_Config/Include/SiteDefinition.configwith a new<Site>node for each site.The code:
<!-- this entry will respond to http://site1.hostname.com/mysite with the /Sitecore/sites/mysite/home node -->
(Also complicating matters: the first line of code is a valid HTML comment that would normally not be shown in the post if it were not quoted as code.)
