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Getting Syntax Colouring in HTML using Vim

If you're wondering how I got the syntax colouring on my CoffeeScript post, here's the important bits: The VIM :TOhtml command absolutely rocks.  (Thanks to the Vim gurus who pointed me towards it.) The molokai colour scheme is very pretty. The ability to :so! a list of commands in Vi saves a lot of time. Here's the commands I use (formatted, of course, using the program itself) /<body :s/bgcolor="/background : / :s/" text="/; color : / :s/<body /<pre class='code' style="/ :s/"><.*// A; -moz-background-size: auto auto; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;...

posted @ 07 November 2010 08:34 | Feedback (0)
Developers aren't designers

I know a fair bit of CSS.  I know about the three pixel bug, I've even contributed IE5 fixes to three column layout solutions.  However, I've just been reminded extremely forcefully of my limitations. As is pretty obvious, I'm using SubText as my blogging engine.  It's a good, fully featured system that supports more use cases than you might imagine if you're still thinking "How hard can it be to write a blog engine?".  It comes with a number of default skins and a "Naked" skin for developing your own skins. The skinning system is really powerful and very easy to understand. ...

posted @ 27 July 2008 08:14 | Feedback (0)