Add Syntax Highlighting To Your Blog With VIM
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Add Syntax Highlighting To Your Blog With VIM
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Re: Add Syntax Highlighting To Your Blog With VIM
#2I just tried this out and it works perfectly. A worthwhile note is that it also outputs line numbers if you enable them in Vim.
Re: Add Syntax Highlighting To Your Blog With VIM
#3This is an awesome feature. Naturally, Emacs also supports this, right out of the box. Just use M-x htmlfontify-buffer.
Here's a sample of the output: http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tikhon/Interpreter.hs.html
EDIT: Also, note that while the VIM one uses a bunch of tags, the Emacs one uses a bunch of span tags with reasonable class names like "function-name" or "string", so it produces much nicer code and is easy to use with your own CSS.
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#4Probably a little too off-topic, but after years of using similar "custom" methods of doing syntax highlighting, trying several WordPress plugins to automatically highlight, and several other options, I have found embedding GitHub Gists in blog posts to be the most reliable and lowest maintenance approach.
This probably won't matter to most people, but if you're the kind of person that has tutorials or examples or any other kind of thing you try to keep up to date in a blog post over the years, things like TOhtml make it hard to quickly edit and maintain the code, while WordPress plugins invariably do a poor job, add too much to the processing time (though you should be using a caching solution), and break on upgrade. For me, GitHub's Gists were a godsend.
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#5FWIW I'v been using Text::VimColor (Perl interface to vim's syntax hilighting) on my blog for several years now. Mostly because I talk a lot about Perl 6, and there aren't many hilighters for Perl 6 code around.
In the beginning it sometimes produced Mojibake, which I finally nailed on a missing locale. And it's a bit slower than the usual hilighter, because it spawns a new vim process for each snippet to be hilighted. Still a good choice.
Re: Add Syntax Highlighting To Your Blog With VIM
#6Probably a little too off-topic, but after years of using similar "custom" methods of doing syntax highlighting, trying several WordPress plugins to automatically highlight, and several other options, I have found embedding GitHub Gists in blog posts to be the most reliable and lowest maintenance approach. This probably won't matter to most people, but if you're the kind of person that has tutorials or examples or an…
The key is to store the original, and to display the tohtml output.
I'm kinda skeptical about embedding stuff from external sites; the more external dependencies you have, the less reliable your own blog becomes.
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#7This is not sophisticated, nor webscale, nor using the fad of the week. But, it is non-the-less awesome because it does exactly what OA needs, right now, using a context appropriate amount of effort (i.e. near to none).
Re: Add Syntax Highlighting To Your Blog With VIM
#8Probably a little too off-topic, but after years of using similar "custom" methods of doing syntax highlighting, trying several WordPress plugins to automatically highlight, and several other options, I have found embedding GitHub Gists in blog posts to be the most reliable and lowest maintenance approach. This probably won't matter to most people, but if you're the kind of person that has tutorials or examples or an…
The key is to store the original, and to display the tohtml output. I'm kinda skeptical about embedding stuff from external sites; the more external dependencies you have, the less reliable your own blog becomes.
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#9I've used `:TOhtml` for the first time last week for an internal presentation. It's quick and easy to modify.
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#10Pygments (http://pygments.org/) will also turn code into syntax highlighted HTML.