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I've a file of source code written in a programming language (e.g. PHP) and I would like to convert it into a HTML file, so I can publish it on web in order to share my code.
By conversion I mean, for example, converting new lines into <br> tags so that the text will keep the same formatting both in the text editor and in the web browser. Ideally it should also preserve syntax highlighting so it can be also printed.
Is this achievable in Vim? If so, how?
The following vim command would creates an html rendering of the current file.
:TOhtml
It saves the file in the same folder (with .html extension) and it will include styles, foreground/background colours and syntax highlighting, so the file can be straight web published as well as printed.
For more options (like adding line numbers, compability with old browsers, etc.), check: :help TOhtml.
To convert file non-interactively, try the following command:
vim -E -s -c "let g:html_no_progress=1" -c "syntax on" -c "set ft=c" -c "runtime syntax/2html.vim" -cwqa myfile.c
Related:
%, since that's the default. Also note that this is exactly the same as the other answer (:runtime! syntax/2html.vim), the only difference is that with TOhtml you can add easily a range (instead of setting g:html_start_line and g:html_end_line manually.
Feb 15, 2015 at 0:14
vim -E -s -c "let g:html_no_progress=1" -c "set background=light" -c "set ft=myfiletype" -c "runtime syntax/2html.vim" -c wqa myfile.txt. Specifically, the syntax highlighting CSS rules don't get inserted into the resulting HTML file. If I remove the -s for silent mode, it works fine (but not sure if that would work properly without a tty).
Nov 11, 2020 at 3:39
As I understood you, you want to convert content of current window to HTML. Try to run this command:
:runtime! syntax/2html.vim
more info here:
:help convert-to-HTML
