Export File Syntax Highlighting to HTML Using Vim

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I wrote a vim syntax highlighting file for a custom file type that I am working and I want to be able to show off my syntax highlighting painlessly by converting my view of the page into an HTML document for others.

My current workflow is basically:

vim *.ext

and then:

:TOhtml
:wq
:n

ad nauseum

I'm sick of it, I've exported 3 files this way and I've had enough. How can I streamline this using some sort of script?

Best Answer

Try this:

for i in *.ext; do vim -c TOhtml -c wqa $i ; done

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I don't think that your Vim is broken. Try putting a hash mark (#) at the beginning of the first line in the file. When Vim sees this, it sets the filetype to conf (for a configuration file). As far as I know, Vim does not syntax color vanilla text files.

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Assuming your file's extension is *.foo…

Create these files and directories if they don't exist:

$HOME/.vim/ftdetect/foo.vim
$HOME/.vim/syntax/foo.vim

Put the following in $HOME/.vim/ftdetect/foo.vim:

autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.foo set filetype=foo

Put the following in $HOME/.vim/syntax/foo.vim:

syntax match FooKey   /^[^=]\+/
syntax match FooValue /[^=]\+$/

Put the following lines at the very end of $HOME/.vimrc (or at least after any colorscheme line):

highlight FooKey   ctermfg=cyan guifg=#00ffff
highlight FooValue ctermfg=red  guifg=#ff0000

Make sure you have the following line somewhere in your ~/.vimrc:
```
syntax on
```

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