Package Listings Warning: Text dropped after begin of listing when calling function

Question

I'm trying to this:

\newcommand{\code}[1] {\begin{lstlisting} {#1} \end{lstlisting} }

But I keep getting this error:

Package Listings Warning: Text dropped after begin of listing

I'm calling \usepackage and all so, do any of you knows how to solve this?

You can't put verbatim material in the argument to another command and listings material is like verbatim. — egreg, Jun 13 '12 at 15:10
Is there any other way of doing it? Or do i have to do "manually" for my every piece of code? — Nuno, Jun 13 '12 at 15:14
Where's the convenience of \code{foo} with respect to \begin{lstlisting}foo\end{lstlisting}? Particularly when foo is several lines. If you need to get "inline" listings, consider the command \lstinline. — egreg, Jun 13 '12 at 15:15
Since you have some responses below that seem to answer your question, please consider marking one of them as ‘Accepted’ by clicking on the tickmark below their vote count (see How do you accept an answer?). This shows which answer helped you most, and it assigns reputation points to the author of the answer (and to you!). It's part of this site's idea to identify good questions and answers through upvotes and acceptance of answers. — jub0bs, Mar 02 '14 at 14:43

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 10 '20 at 12:32

Inline Listings:

If you want inline listings you can use \lstinline{listing content}. If the content of the listings contains curly braces you could actually use a different character to delimit the start and end as in \lstinlinelisting content with {}`:

enter image description here

Code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\lstset{basicstyle=\ttfamily\small\color{blue}}
\begin{document}
To have inline listings use  \lstinline{listing content} to get the formatting.
To have inline listings use  \lstinlinelisting content with {} to get the formatting.
\end{document}

Displayed Listings:

For displayed listings, you need to use

\begin{lstlisting}
    ... code to be formatted ...
\end{lstlisting}

or you can define your own environment via \lstnewenvironment.

enter image description here

Code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\lstset{basicstyle=\ttfamily\small\color{blue}}
\begin{document}
\noindent
For displayed listings use  \verb|\begin{lstlisting} ... \end{lstlisting}|
\begin{lstlisting}
   listing content
\end{lstlisting}
to get the formatting.
\end{document}

score 3 · Answer 2 · 2014-07-30T07:33:02.417

use listings own definition for new environments:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\lstnewenvironment{code}
  {\lstset{basicstyle=\ttfamily\small,keywordstyle=\color{blue},
           language=[LaTeX]{TeX},frame=single,backgroundcolor=\color{blue!20}}}
  {}
\begin{document}
\noindent foo
\begin{code}
\lstnewenvironment{code}{basicstyle=\ttfamily\small}
\end{code}
bar
\end{document}

enter image description here

Package Listings Warning: Text dropped after begin of listing when calling function

2 Answers2

Inline Listings:

Code:

Displayed Listings:

Code:

Linked

Related