vim and syntax-highlighting in reports

[chebe]

Hey all, foxfirefey swung by my journal and let me know about this community. I think it's a fantastic idea, so I present to you my humble offering:

Ever wanted to make all that source code in your report/webpage much more readable by adding syntax highlighting, and specified formatting? Well, before you reach for the snapshot tool, try vim.

:TOhtml

Produces a html formatted version of your file, syntax highlighted the way vim does things. Just save it, open in a browser, and copy-paste into your text processor. Voilá!

P.S. I haven't tried vi, anyone know if it works there too?

Comments

[afuna]

*wow* that is all kinds of awesome. I added :let html_use_css=1, as well and it is absolutely perfect now. It even linkifies things that look like links, and um. Wow!

No idea if it works in vi; looks like everything I have, vi is an alias for vim.

[sophie]

It won't; syntax highlighting is a vim thing.

[afuna]

Awww, good to know. Thanks *g*

[sophie]

I agree with afuna; I never even knew about this. Thanks! :D