You're being too lazy

Post #199,754 by ben_tilly 3/21/05 1:48:04 PM Reply	You're being too lazy Let me outline how to do it in such a way that you'll find most of your work already done for you. Install gvim. Write a small utility to save the current file to a filename with an extension indicating the current filetype. (.html, .pl, .c, etc) Then run the following shell command: \ngvim -f +"syn on" +"run\\! syntax/2html.vim" +"wq" +"q" $filename\n Now read back $filename.html. Post-process that slightly if you want. (You may not need to escape ! depending on how you execute this - in bash I need it.) This will work somewhat better if gvim has access to X. (According to the documentation it does a better job of picking colors, whatever that means.) Voila! Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #199,775 by admin 3/21/05 2:44:13 PM Reply	Au contraire I'm more interested in the system being self-contained. With such a constraint, implementing this suggestion entails quite a bit more work than "shell out to gvim"... Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #199,780 by ben_tilly 3/21/05 2:56:29 PM Reply	You can still leverage the effort though... Many editors have syntax highlighting files. If you write a parser that parses some editor's syntax highlighting files and then displays based on that, then you at least don't have to write your own syntax files - you just need the parsing and the display code. Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #199,787 by admin 3/21/05 3:17:53 PM Reply	"just"... Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #199,789 by ben_tilly 3/21/05 3:22:15 PM Reply	Compared to what you save... the effort that you'd have to expend is the merest trifle. :-P Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #199,792 by admin 3/21/05 3:25:15 PM Reply	Compared to doing nothing and laughing at Peter... It's a lot of work, and not nearly as satisfying... Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."

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