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:ToHtml does that natively.

But I can definetly understand the authors decision to chose what he calls "the complicated solution".

Minor correction (case-sensitive):

:TOhtml

For any other Vim newbs like me who tried it and thought it wasn't built in to my Vim.

FYI, there is a setting (which I can't remember but I've always had it) to make all your Vim command completions case-insensitive.

:h cmdline-completion, it's possibly the ignorecase option.

I'd have gone for the Pygments lib myself, but fun hack.

Vim comes with a syntax highlighting engine for almost every file format anyone ever comes across. Looking at Pygments, it seems to only support programming languages and a few highly-developer-oriented config files.

In Emacs:

M-x htmlfontify-buffer or M-x htmlize

To be fair, that is something the same as `:TOhtml` in vim. The scripts from the blogpost allow for slightly more -the HTML can be generated and written to a file without the editor actually starting. I imagine this would be useful for automation.

Exporting VIM Syntax Highlight