Share your vim buffer with others easily with your own personal pastebin-like system.

HtmlPaste.vim

" Personal Pastebin
" Based on <http://connermcd.com/blog/2012/09/17/personal-pastebin-system/>
com! -range=% HtmlPaste <line1>,<line2>call HtmlPaste()
noremap <silent> gH :HtmlPaste<cr>
fun! HtmlPaste() range
  " *********
  " Settings

  let localPaste = "~/projects/octopress/source/paste"
  let remotePublic = "[email protected]:/srv/www/example.com"
  let remotePasteUrl = "http://example.com/paste"

  " *********

  let hasRN = &relativenumber
  let hasNumber = &number

  " unset line numbers - makes copy/paste easier for people
  set norelativenumber
  set nonumber

  " convert to html
  exe a:firstline.",".a:lastline."TOhtml"
  " get a random alphanumeric string for the filename
  let pasteName = system("cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 4 | head -n 1 | perl -ne 'chomp and print'")
  " save to local paste directory
  exe "sav! " . localPaste . "/" . pasteName
  " close window the above command creates
  wincmd c
  " sync local/public paste 
  exe "silent !rsync -a " . localPaste . " " . remotePublic
  " copy to clipboard
  exe "silent !echo -n '" . remotePasteUrl . "/" . pasteName . "' | xclip -selection clipboard"

  " restore line numbers
  if hasRN
    set relativenumber
  endif
  if hasNumber
    set number
  endif

  redraw!
endfun