Convert selected text to HTML

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created May 18, 2005 · complexity basic · author Anonymous · version 5.7

You can convert selected text to HTML code in Vim using:

:TOhtml

This works with a complete file, or segments of code (selected in visual mode). GUI users can also use the drop-down menu.

This is really nice when you are writing webpages with code snippets in it:

Set the highlighting of the file to your programming language of choice.
Enter the code.
Select the code.
Type :TOhtml
Copy the HTML code from the window.

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If you want to generate HTML automatically, for example whenever you publish a document on a website, then you can use my Perl module Text::VimColor to run Vim for you:

http://search.cpan.org/~geoffr/Text-VimColor/

It's also useful if you don't want a particular type of HTML, or if you want to generate some other format. You can get the syntax-colored code out as XML or a data structure and munge it in Perl if you want.

Since you broadened the topic, don't forget about http://qbnz.com/highlighter/ for source highlighting via web app.

Convert selected text to HTML

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