Shell script pretty printer

If your favorite syntax highlighter doesn't support html output and/or your language, chances are VIm does.

VIm is a highly customizable text editor in functionality arguably only comparable to emacs (but never tried it!)

If your script gets highlighted correctly in VIm you can easly export it to an html page for use in your blog, with the script Colorize.

By default this script is Mac OS/X and only highlights shell scripts (bash) but it's easily adaptable to every supported language.

It uses the 2html.vim plugin, which features:

• XHTML/HTML 4 support
  
• CSS styles for highlighting
• Line numbering
• Folding

The script makes use of the "-s-ex" option for vim (for more info open vim and type ":help -s-ex").
If you call 2html.vim interactively and the colors of the output html file don't fit, try setting
":set t_Co=256" before exporting. This tells vim that the terminal supports 256 colors.

Here's an example for an interactive vim-session, with options set for css-styles, xhtml, line numbering, unfolding, tabstop expanding and an unintrusive colorscheme "peachpuff" (also used on this site). For generating the html code simply write ":run! syntax/2html.vim" and then save the new window.

vim -e  \
-S <(
   echo '
      set nocompatible
      set t_Co=256
      let use_xhtml=1
      let html_number_lines=1
      let html_use_css=1
      let html_ignore_folding=1
      set expandtabs
      set tabstop=4
      set background=light
      syntax on
      colorscheme peachpuff
      vi
   '
) <your_script_file>

Note: As of Vim 7.0 enabling line numbering causes an error for Latex files, which results in incomplete formating.