You can use VIM as a syntax highlighting engine for code fragments in your blogs etc. The below code snippet works sort of, but it is slow for me. Not sure at the moment whether it is VIM or something else. Perhapps others can try it out and suggest speed or other improvments.
def vimsyn(text, filetype)
synfile = Tempfile.new('synfile')
synfile.close
codefile = Tempfile.new('codefile')
codefile << text
codefile.close
# filetype="matlab"
expr = %Q%/usr/local/bin/vim -f -n -X -e -s -c \
"set filetype=#{filetpe}" \
-c "syntax on" \
-c "set background=dark" \
-c "let html_use_css=1" \
-c "run syntax/2html.vim" \
-c "wq! #{synfile.path}" -c "q" \
#{codefile.path}%
`#{expr}`
html = IO.readlines(synfile.path).join
body = html.match(/<body.*<\/body>/m)[0]
css = html.match(/<style.*<\/style>/m)[0]
css.gsub!(/pre/,'pre.code')
css.gsub!(/^body.*$/,'')
body.gsub!(/^<body/,'<div')
body.gsub!(/<\/body>/,'<div>')
body.gsub!(/<pre>/,'<pre class=code>')
return css+body
end
on my OSX 10.4.8, this script fails to execute tempfile like below:
use "system()" instead of "`#{expr}`" works on my environment.