Re: TOhtml - URL to link conversion

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 09:58:02AM +0100, Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz wrote:
> On Thu, 10 May 2012 19:25:05 -0700 (PDT)
> Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic@gmail.com> wrote:

> >On Thursday, May 10, 2012 5:34:35 PM UTC-5, Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz
> >wrote:
> >> I noticed TOhtml converts URLs to <a> links. Can this be avoided?
> >>
> >> I am converting a markup language file, which contains URLs. In vim,
> >> these are displayed with particular syntax highlighting.
> >>
> >> In my HTML output I would simply like them to have the same
> >> highlighting as in vim. Nor do I want them to be clickable links. But
> >> since they have been converted to links, they are displayed in the
> >> browser's default link style.
> >>
> >
> >What if they were clickable links with the same highlighting as in
> >Vim? I'd prefer not to add yet another option if I can avoid it.


> Does the built-in TOhtml convert links?

> I would argue that the link conversion isn't what I'd expect of TOhtml.
> I expected TOhtml to simply convert what I see in vim to HTML - a code
> snippet that can be embedded in a web page, with the possibility of
> copy/paste. (Otherwise, for looks, one could just use a screenshot.)


> Just applying the vim style to the <a> tag (instead of or in addition
> to an on/off option), I don't think would be that straightforward
> either.
> For example, my style is a purple fg with NO border. The generated vim
> style has no border attribute because normally it doesn't have to
> override a default style with border. You would need a
> "border:none !important". I just tried this on the fly in FF 3.5 +FF
> 9 and the no-border is ignored despite the "!important". It takes the
> colour but still displays with border.


> I appreciate that you don't want to bloat the plugin with to many
> options.

> I will use TOhtml occasionally to generate code snippets for the web. I
> can take the links out manually or write a script to remove the links.

for me, if i am looking at vim snippets in a browser and there
are links, i would expect to be able to click and go to the
target of the link, and think it odd if it looks like a link but
isn't -- you really want to unlink the links?

sc

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