If you’re wondering how I got the syntax colouring on my CoffeeScript post, here’s the important bits:
- The VIM :TOhtml command absolutely rocks. (Thanks to the Vim gurus who pointed me towards it.)
- The molokai colour scheme is very pretty.
- The ability to :so! a list of commands in Vi saves a lot of time.
Here’s the commands I use (formatted, of course, using the program itself)
/<body :s/bgcolor="/background : / :s/" text="/; color : / :s/<body /<pre class='code' style="/ :s/"><.*// A; -moz-background-size: auto auto; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial">^[kdgg /</body dGo</pre>^[ :2,-1s/<span.*/span>/<span>/ G:2,-1s/<br>/</span>/
Vim’s colour-coding of keyboard macros leaves something to be desired, but hey, you can’t have everything. What I do have is something significantly easier to use than the solution I’ve been using for Visual Studio. There’s a couple of things the Visual Studio solution gets right, like highlighting mutable variables and showing interfaces and classes in different colours, but there’s a lot more manual work involved.
If you are using it, make sure the HTML is the only buffer currently visible. I’d be very glad to hear from someone who knows how to fix that particular bug. For non-VIM users, this may look like line noise, but I assure you you’ll be able to read it after a fairly short period of time practicing Vim. More usefully, you’ll be able to write your own. One final tip: ^[ is a single character: use CTRL-Q CTRL-[ to get it on Windows.
Colour Coding 