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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

How to post source in blogger

I created this blog to share various things, but mostly to bring interesting and useful source code. For this purpose, had to find a clear and easy way to post source code here.
The strange is that google (as you see I'm using blogger) do not provide any meaningful default solution.

I seek for different solutions and this was the coolest one Source Code Highlighting - In Blogger!. It uses vi editor and works great for me.

However I need to do some modifications.
First one is before executing :TOhtml command I do enable xhtml with :let use_xhtml=1. Second one is to remove all the <br /> tags since the rich editor of the blogger is making new lines for me. This can be done with :1,$s/<br \/>//g

Then you can paste the source in the reserved placeholders.
<pre> tag is needed to protect your code from the compose. It will damage it if <pre> is missing..

Here is the result from a simple java file.


package source.in.blogger;

import java.util.List;

/**
* Some commet is here.
*/
@Documented
public class BloggerSource {
// Simple comment
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.printf("I'm source code%n");
}
}



It's not extremely easy but works. Try it out and have fun.
Surely I'll use it for my few next post till I find something more useful.

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