Quick way to format text that is a code snippet?

[DrewDavid 4]

Hi, see subject

 

Thanks

[GrumpyMonkey 4,314]

Hi, see subject

 

Thanks

 

Hi. See link.

http://discussion.evernote.com/topic/40683-simple-way-to-mimic-code-formatting/

 

You're welcome

[Hugotox 0]

Hi!

 

You can format your code with an online tool like this one: http://tohtml.com/ and then copy and paste into evernote.

 

Best

[mklement0 3]

You can format your code with an online tool like this one: http://tohtml.com/ and then copy and paste into evernote.

 

Cool - thanks for the tip.

 

• CAVEAT, as of Evernote 6.0.6 for the Mac  Copying a formatted snippet created at http://tohtml.com/ into Evernote then produces garbled results (line breaks are replaced with spaces) when later copying from Evernote elsewhere (such as into a plain-text editor).
• • Workaround: If the selection in Evernote contains at least 1 line OUTSIDE of the originally pasted code snippet, copying works fine.
  • Upshot: You can't (easily) copy parts of such code snippets elsewhere.

I don't know the reason - it may be specific to the HTML generated by http://tohtml.com/.

 

[Edit: clarification added after feedback from @jefito]

[mklement0 3]

 

http://discussion.evernote.com/topic/40683-simple-way-to-mimic-code-formatting/

 

 

Sadly, that link is dead now. Try https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/44714-request-embed-code-snippets-with-auto-formatting-and-syntax-highlighting/

[jefito 5,586]

 

You can format your code with an online tool like this one: http://tohtml.com/ and then copy and paste into evernote.

 

Cool - thanks for the tip.

 

• CAVEAT, as of Evernote 6.0.6: Copying a formatted snippet into Evernote then produces garbled results (line breaks are replaced with spaces) when later copying from Evernote elsewhere (such as into a plain-text editor).
• • Workaround: If the selection in Evernote contains at least 1 line OUTSIDE of the originally pasted code snippet, copying works fine.
  • Upshot: You can't (easily) copy parts of such code snippets elsewhere.

 

This does not hold true for all Evernote clients and most likely also depends on the source of the snippet.

 

For example, with the current Evernote Windows client (5.8.4.xxx), snippets from Visual Studio are put on the clipboard in Rich Text Format with syntax highlighting and Unicode. Evernote recognizes Rich Text and renders it pretty faithfully (font sizes don't always seem to quite match up), whereas NotePad++ only puts plain text formats on the clipboard, so no syntax highlighting is transferred, and the result is rendered in your default font in Evernote. In both cases, line breaks are honored.

[mklement0 3]

 

Thanks - I've since clarified that I was talking about the Mac client and made it clearer that I was talking about snippets from http://tohtml.com/.

 

Good to hear that it works well on Windows, but just to clarify: does it work OK when you copy a previously pasted RTF snippet back out of Evernote? The Mac / http://tohtml.com/ issue isn't one of faithful rendering, it's a problem of copying the snippet out of Evernote elsewhere later.

[jefito 5,586]

Seeing as how this is a general topic, it's good to clarify your platform, and also whatever other software you're using in the chain. I don't know how the Mac clipboard works (if that's what they even call it), or how Evernote for Mac works in this respect.

 

In the Windows Evernote client, I find that the snippet that I pasted from Visual Studio, when copied in Evernote, is put on the clipboard in several text formats, HTML, and Evernote's own ENML format. Everntoe doesn't store RTF, though it can interpret it and convert it to its own internal format (ENML, essentially). Depending on where you put it, it will be handled differently, as that's dictated by the formats that the target program can handle. It came in fine into Visual Studio, which I assume just read one of the text formats available, and did its syntax highlighting. Ditto for the NotePad++ text snippet.

 

There's no guarantee of round-tripping in and outr of Evernote, because Evernote concerts anything that comes in into its own HTML-ish format. When it goes out,that's the basis...

[mklement0 3]

Thanks for the useful background info about formats.

 

Understood re round-tripping, but in the case at hand the round-trip (even to plain text) is fundamentally broken (newlines replaced with spaces).

 

The problem does appear to relate to the HTML created by http://tohtml.com/, and I've let the maintainers know, but here's what makes me think the problem is on the Evernote side:

 

• Copying the same HTML to TextEdit (a text editor that comes with OS X) and then from there back elsewhere (whether to plain text or not) works correctly.
• In Evernote, including just one line *outside* the pasted snippet when copying back out makes the problem go away.

One thing that is unusual about the HTML created: The newlines in the formatted code are represented as *literal* newlines, not as markup.

 

(Re clipboard terminology: I think that "clipboard" is the term used these days on the Mac too, though you can find references (even in the names of CLIs) to "pasteboard" on occasion, due to OS X's NeXTSTEP heritage).

 

Seeing as how this is a general topic, it's good to clarify your platform, and also whatever other software you're using in the chain. I don't know how the Mac clipboard works (if that's what they even call it), or how Evernote for Mac works in this respect.

 

In the Windows Evernote client, I find that the snippet that I pasted from Visual Studio, when copied in Evernote, is put on the clipboard in several text formats, HTML, and Evernote's own ENML format. Everntoe doesn't store RTF, though it can interpret it and convert it to its own internal format (ENML, essentially). Depending on where you put it, it will be handled differently, as that's dictated by the formats that the target program can handle. It came in fine into Visual Studio, which I assume just read one of the text formats available, and did its syntax highlighting. Ditto for the NotePad++ text snippet.

 

There's no guarantee of round-tripping in and outr of Evernote, because Evernote concerts anything that comes in into its own HTML-ish format. When it goes out,that's the basis...

[jefito 5,586]

I think that Evernote uses div's to delineate text lines in its markup. If HTML with newlines and no divs comes in to Evernote, it's most likely interpreted as generic HTML; no line breaks. TextEdit may interpret the same thing differently. I've pretty much exhausted all I know about this stuff at this point, though. Happy spelunking!!

[mklement0 3]

I think that Evernote uses div's to delineate text lines in its markup. If HTML with newlines and no divs comes in to Evernote, it's most likely interpreted as generic HTML; no line breaks. TextEdit may interpret the same thing differently. I've pretty much exhausted all I know about this stuff at this point, though. Happy spelunking!!

 

Thanks again.

 

One for the road: Evernote clearly recognizes these line breaks when *rendering* - everything *looks* as expected. The line breaks only disappear on *copying* (and can be made to reappear with my expand-the-selection-beyond-the-snippet trick).

[JMichaelTX 4,104]

Thanks - I've since clarified that I was talking about the Mac client and made it clearer that I was talking about snippets from http://tohtml.com/.

 

With respect to EN Mac, I have found that pasting formatted code from AppleScript editor into an EN Note initially looks great, maintaining all fonts, colors, and indents.

 

Unfortunately, once I click to another Note, and then back the one with AppleScript, the indents are removed.

Why would this be?

[rickyzhu 0]

copied from iTerm or macvim, EN will also lost all format....

[yeahoffline 1]

i need that feature ASAP. Please add it to evernote soon  

 

all the workarounds are not worth the time

[bnmora 0]

i need that feature ASAP. Please add it to evernote soon

 

all the workarounds are not worth the time

 

I love and use Evernote a lot.

but it's just too tedious to make a note

with code snippet on Evernote.

 

for now I use Quiver

that has a dedicated "code cell" within it

(with line number, syntax highlight, etc)

 

it'll be great if Evernote can add a feature like this.

[The Dev 1]

Complete Solution here: http://bigbytetech.ca/how-to-paste-formatted-code-into-evernote

[JMichaelTX 4,104]

18 hours ago, The Dev said:

Complete Solution here: http://bigbytetech.ca/how-to-paste-formatted-code-into-evernote

Wow!   This looks very interesting.  I'll definitely give it a try.

IMO this demonstrates that Evernote could relatively easy provide this a a built-in feature.

Thanks for sharing.

[Metrodon 2,162]

Code blocks in the latest Mac beta apparently

[bootislands 6]

On 2016/2/1 at 0:49 PM, The Dev said:

Complete Solution here: http://bigbytetech.ca/how-to-paste-formatted-code-into-evernote

Great solution! I find, however, pasting to evernote windows will make it FORCE CLOSE. Maybe the style code contained is parsed by evernote abnormally?
like this gif demonstrated (4mb):

 

and another fantastic way, like this post said, using "copy as rtf" feature of sublime text/notepad++/ultraedit, to paste code with style, also have an problem.
Evernote will add extra spaces, like this gif demonstrated (900K):

 

really hope there's a better way.

[dpack 1]

On 2/1/2016 at 11:36 AM, Metrodon said:

Code blocks in the latest Mac beta apparently

I just accidentally did this in Evernote on Mac v6.6 (453323). I typed ``` then hit enter and it gave me this:

I was then able to type code into the box. Note, it seems if you're font is already set to a monospace font it won't work, it also won't work if you type it while indented more than one level in a bullet. I haven't figured out how to specify code highlighting or anything.

I had a hard time finding anything official that mentioned this update. After looking for a while, I found this post that introduces it as a beta feature in v6.5 for Mac: 

Even though I have v6.6 for Mac, I can't find a post that announces its release or gives more clarifying details as to how the feature works. UPDATE: I'm keeping that line even though the post DOES exist, it just seems that searching the forums kind of sucks. Google found it for me, though: 

But again, no mention of the feature or how to use it. I'm happy that Evernote is going in this direction and I have high hopes it will keep getting better. What it needs now is code highlighting and it would also be great to enable in-line code snippets with single back tick, like in markdown, even if it was only an option you had to enable in preferences/settings.

Also, it looks like this is coming in Evernote for Windows v6, which is in beta right now: 

 

 

[matthewthornton_evernote 0]

If you are using Atom (https://atom.io/) there is plugin where you can edit and sync your code snippets to Evernote. It is really slick as you can edit and view directly in Atom.  

Atom Evernote Plugin:  https://atom.io/packages/ever-notedown

[ChrisBergeron 0]

Simply typing 3 backticks (and enter) will do it (at least it does on OS X, haven't tried in Windows yet).

```

Example:

``` <enter>

Type or paste your codeblock here

 

[jefito 5,586]

The Evernote for Windows client shortcut for converting a selection to a code block is Ctrl+Shift+L.

[Bala murali 2]

I am searching for thois to add the code from a website http://downloadsformac.com/   but I unable to format the code  in evernote.

If there is a option for adding code format in to evernote, I need it .

[Bala murali 2]

On 2/8/2017 at 1:17 AM, jefito said:

The Evernote for Windows client shortcut for converting a selection to a code block is Ctrl+Shift+L.

Thank you very much I add the code format with your suggestion thank you

[Thiago Pereira 1]

Em 08/06/2016 at 15:38, matthewthornton_evernote disse:

If you are using Atom (https://atom.io/) there is plugin where you can edit and sync your code snippets to Evernote. It is really slick as you can edit and view directly in Atom.  

Atom Evernote Plugin:  https://atom.io/packages/ever-notedown

 

Do you know if it works on windows client?

Dont: via AppleScript.

[Shubham Aggarwal 0]

On 8/13/2013 at 12:40 AM, GrumpyMonkey said:

 

Hi. See link.

http://discussion.evernote.com/topic/40683-simple-way-to-mimic-code-formatting/

 

You're welcome

Dead link. It is usually a good idea to include a summary of the answer to avoid these issues.

[Shane D. 1,791]

@Shubham Aggarwal This is actually my fault! I was doing some work cleaning up/merging some older posts and I believe that particular one may have been removed. (I'm currently searching for it, but it may not be possible to get it back.) @GrumpyMonkey Any chance you'd be gracious enough to provide some insight if you still recall?

 

 

[CalS 5,013]

From 2013????  

[Robin Bowes 1]

Is it really too much to ask to be able to use basic markdown features, eg. `this should be fixed pitch` ?

[julen 0]

I cannot see ant reasonable justification why this feature is implemented in Windows but not on Mac.

[JMichaelTX 4,104]

On 4/16/2018 at 4:10 PM, julen said:

I cannot see ant reasonable justification why this feature is implemented in Windows but not on Mac.

If you are referring to the code block, it is working fine for me, running Evernote 6.11.1 (455059) on macOS 10.12.6:

[morenomdz 0]

It is really sad evernote desktop application does not handle code well. The code block removes identation and tries to keep the color from the IDE marking, but the palet is all wrong so it uglifies everything.

A simple markdown solution from ``` or something custom doesn't look like a hard thing to add. Also, it just adds injury that the forum has this feature.