How to preserve special characters highlighting when converting to HTML?

Question

I have an issue with the :TOhtml command.

It works great, but it doesn't preserve the list option.

If I do:

:set list listchars=tab:>-,trail:.,extends:>
:TOhtml

The special characters highlight is missing in the generated HTML file.

Any idea how to fix that?

Answer 1

This appears to be a known bug with tohtml in vim, supposedly fixed in 7.3, but I can't be sure. Since it is injecting the document between pre tags, any whitespace should be preserved; tohtml strips them.