Convert code to HTML with Vim

I have only ever use vi for the most elementary editing, and even that I found painful. Have never used Vim before. However, I have managed to setup Vim with a nice GTK GUI menu and I am finding it quite usable.

I want to use Vim for one feature only, it's ability to convert code to color-highlighted HTML. This is great for writing documentation -- I want to do some more work on my BaCon tutorials.

I have downloaded 'bacon.vim' to add syntax highligting for BaCon code:
http://www.basic-converter.org/bacon.vim

However, I ran into a problem, bacon.vim wasn't recognised. I posted on the BaCon forum and Peter replied almost immediately with a solution:
http://basic-converter.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=90&page=1

This is fantastic. I will see if I can get this together into a Vim PET package, all setup to use the nice GTK GUI and recognise BaCon code. Of course, the code-to-HTML feature is applicable to other code such as C and Vala.

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Comments

You don't need Vim...


Re Highlight
Username: BarryK
"I considered Highlight. It needs the Boost library to compile, which I was too lazy to do. It also needs Qt for a GUI, which can be done -- from the question posted at that link, it seems that Dingo compiled the CLI version only -- that's fine too. Highlight does not have a color syntax file for BaCon, so some work would be required to create that. I presume it would have a Qbasic highlighter that could be adapted.

Re Highlight, more
Username: BarryK
"I just tested Dingo's Highlight in Wary, it works fine. I counted them, Highlight supports 150 languages, Vim supports 534 languages. Highlight 2.14 only supports one variant of Basic, Visual Basic. Dingo has compiled Highlight version 2.14, the latest is 3.3.

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