Syntax Highlighting on Blogger - Gist

Here is another way to paste code into blogger with nice syntax highlighting.

1. Go to http://gist.github.com
2. Past the code you want to post
3. Copy the embed tag
4. Go back to blogger, and select "Edit Html"
5. Paste the embed tag into your post

Below is the example source code using this tag: <script src="http://gist.github.com/467670.js?file=gistfile1.sql"></script>




A potential drawback of this approach might be the stability of github as a company. In a downturn, it may shut down with very short notice.

Compare to using SyntaxHighlighter, personally, I think this approach is way better:

1. No setup required (in a previous post I documented how to setup syntaxhighlighter for blogger, it took me half an hour to setup everything correctly. Now with gist, there is zero setup required );
2. Faster to create code snippet in a post;
3. Supports more languages;
4. No need to worry about pasting XML, HTML, or other special characters;

To paste script like below used to require replacing '<' with &lt; and '>' with &gt; manually. Now is simply copy paste without any manual changes: