random syntax highlighting tips

• Vim — in xterms/PuTTY/etc, using 256 color mode makes things look nicer
• ack — can be used to highlight regexp matches in a body of text
  (use --color-match to change the color; see Term::ANSIColor manpage for possible colors)

Windows clipboard containing colored text (RTF)

• Visual Studio Code — press F1, then search for "clipboardCopyWithSyntaxHighlightingAction"
• Visual Studio — code is ALWAYS copied to the clipbard in RTF (as well as plaintext)
• PuTTY — enable "Paste to clipboard in RTF as well as plain text" (nice!)
• Eclipse — supported by default
• SciTE — supported by default (Edit > Copy to RTF)
• things you can paste into
  • Gmail — pasting RTF colored text works in Internet Explorer only; Chrome/Firefox/etal require you to paste into Microsoft Word first
  • Outlook — works fine
    pasting directly from PuTTY to Outlook doesn't look so good; either use Format > Rich Text, or first paste into Word, and then copy/paste into Outlook from Word
  • Powerpoint — as with Outlook, you need to first paste into Word, and then copy/paste into Powerpoint
  • Windows Live Writer — ClipboardLive extension
• Mac OSX
  • TextMate — Copy as RTF extension

Linux clipboard containing colored text

• various "SSH in your browser" apps — these allow you to put colored HTML into your clipboard buffer
  • tty.js
  • ajaxterm
  • more
• good ways to clean up the HTML
  • paste into CKEditor, work from there
  • you can trim trailing spaces by using LibreOffice, View>Web Layout, Search&Replace, More Options>Regexp, and find  +$ (note: you may have to cut-n-paste your specific space character, because it may be a  )

generating HTML of syntax-highlighted code

• GNU's source-highlight
  • source-highlight-qt — also available in library form that has been integrated into other projects
• Visual Studio — CopySourceAsHtml extension
• enscript --language=html (or --language=rtf)
  (unfortunately, enscript doesn't have very large coverage of programming languages — see its *.st files for what is supported)
• Vim
  • :TOhtml
    example call:
    vim -f +'syntax on | let html_use_css = 1 | source $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/2html.vim | write | qall' yourfile.pl
  • buf2html.vim
• Java2Html
• IntelliJ IDEA — "Copy as HTML"

tools that convert RTF→HTML

• C#
  • CodeProject.com/.../RtfConverter.aspx by Jani Giannoudis
  • Mike Stall's converter (more here)
  • David Anson's — works on Visual Studio 2010
  • David Anson's — works on Visual Studio 2008
• Perl
  • RTF::HTML::Converter @CPAN
  • RTF::HTMLConverter @CPAN
• VBA
  • Jeff Atwood's converter
  • Coleman Brumley updated Jeff Atwood's to make the background colors work

tools that convert ANSI→HTML

• aha
• my own script — ansi2html.pl

RTF documentation

• Wikipedia page, including links to various versions of the spec
• RTF Cookbook