Syntax highlighting when pasting into emails

Question

Im in the situation that I often send small codesnippets and xml-snippets to coworkers and partners via my outlook. Has anyone got a good idea or tool that I can use to have my pastes syntaxhighlighted before I paste them into an email.

I was thinking of an intermediate paste to "$fancytool" and then I would have something to copy that will htmlified so I can copy paste it into the "compose email" window.

Edit-More-info:

Im pasting from windows within a VMWare virtual Machine, it might be eclipse, xmlspy, logfiles and other programs

Even-more-info:

I've seen this link how to do it from Vim. Unfortunately it seldom from vim im copying Code, and my email machine hasnt got any vim. The vmware machines has gvim, but I was hoping for an easier way that pasting to vim, saving to file, opening in internetexplorer and then copy/paste

Answer 1

If you just want the Add-In here it is.

If you want to know how it is done, here is an article on how to write the Add-In.

Answer 2

Vim (or GVim) will output your code as formatted HTML. Then as long as your email is using an HTML format you can copy and paste it in.

Answer 3

If you're on Windows, Visual Studio does this automatically. At least it does for me, using Visual Studio 2005 on XP and copy/pasting to both MS Word and Lotus Notes

Answer 4

@Kris: CopySourceAsHtml works only with VS2008 (.NET framework) installed. I couldnt get it working for old MSVC6.0 or even Visual Studio 2005 setup i have. Any pointers on that?

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Answer 5

Late but I can give an answer that works. You need 2 things 1) putty 2) access to some modern Linux server(With vim)

In putty options, Under window->selection , turn the check box on for Paste in to clipboard in RTF as well as plain text.

Logon to Linux server using putty. start vim by typing vim Paste your text (for example XML ) in to vim. enter command mode (of vim by pressing ) and type :set syn=xml Syntax highlighting kicks in. Copy the text using mouse and paste it into your email.

Answer 6

Comment: svrist mentioned a code paste site with syntax highlighting. Try http://codepad.org/

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