Listings – How to Use LaTeX Commands Inside a Listing

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I'm using the listings package in a LaTeX document. It works great, but it doesn't allow me to put LaTeX commands inside of the listing. I would like to use a counter to enumerate some of the interesting parts in the source code.

Is there a way to enable LaTeX commands in source listings?

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OK, found the answer. You can use escapechar=<char> to set a character that will escape you to the latex mode. See The Listings Package, 4.3.13 Escaping to LaTeX.

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[Tex/LaTex] Indent a code listing in LaTeX

The listings package allows you to change the margins (see section 4.10 of the documentation.)

\lstset{numbers=right, 
                numberstyle=\tiny, 
                breaklines=true,
                backgroundcolor=\color{light-gray},
                numbersep=5pt,
                xleftmargin=.25in,
                xrightmargin=.25in}

Adjust as necessary.

Creating a Table of Code Listings in LaTeX

One could use the \lstlistoflistings macro that is part of the listings package.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{listings}

\begin{document}

\lstlistoflistings

\section{foo}

\begin{lstlisting}[caption={A listing}]
    Some source code
\end{lstlisting}

\end{document}

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