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• HTML in vim (Score:2)

  by petdance (2468)

  I don't know why you're not having any luck with HTML syntax highlighting in vim. Try

  :set ft=html

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  xoa
  • Re:HTML in vim (Score:1)

    by ethan (3163)

    Oh, that always worked. This is what I do for the compose-window. But when reading an entry I'd rather not have the highlighted HTML-source but a nicely layed-out text document. I would have especeted that something like that already exists for vim. I couldn't find anything suitable though.
    • Re:HTML in vim (Score:2)

      by petdance (2468)

      Oh, oh, I see. Could you pipe the file to lynx? Something like:

      :%!lynx -

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      • Re:HTML in vim (Score:1)

        by ethan (3163) <reversethis-{ed. ... rap.nov.olissat}> on 2002.11.13 14:04 (#14747) Journal

        Could you pipe the file to lynx?
        
        Hmmh, looks as though lynx can't read HTML stream-wise. Same limitation applies to links. w3m however can do it but doesn't appear to understand this sort of HTML-bastardism. The result is basically identical to what got piped in. ":%!html2text -nobs" works but then there are no linebreaks for Plain Old Text format.
        
        Currently, I use IPC::Open2 to do it inside my module:
        
        
sub get_entry {
        my $id = shift or return;
        my $ret = $S->get_entry($id);
        return if _had_error($ret) or (my $entry = $ret->result);
        my $pid = open2 (\*OUT, \*IN, "html2text", "-style", "pretty", "-nobs");
        $entry->{body} =~ s"<(/?)ecode>"<$1code>"g;
        $entry->{body} =~ s"\n"<br>"g;
        $entry->{body} =~
                s"<code>(.*?)</code>"
                  '<code>' . do { (my $s = $1) =~ s/\s/&nbsp;/g;$s } . '</code>'"gsex;
        return $entry->{body} if $@ =~ /^open2:/;
        print IN $entry->{body};
        close IN;
        my @output = <OUT>;
        waitpid $pid, 0;
        return join "\015", @output;
}

        
        I'd really like to use something like HTML::FormatText. But it expects an HTML::TreeBuilder object to render. I have my doubts that it is that easy to turn the journal entry sources into such a tree since they aren't complete HTML documents.
        
        Anyway, the whole business keeps me busy and is intriguing so I am not even complaining that much. ;-)

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