This will place an HTML copy of a buffer on the web on a server that the user has shell access on. It's similar in purpose to services such as https://gist.github.com or https://pastebin.com, but it's much simpler since it assumes the user has an account on a publicly-accessible HTTP server. It uses `scp' as its transport and uses Emacs' font-lock as its syntax highlighter instead of relying on a third-party syntax highlighter for which individual language support must be added one-by-one. ; Install Requires htmlize; available at https://github.com/hniksic/emacs-htmlize. If htmlize is not installed, by default it will fall back to Emacs's own htmlfontify. Open the file and run `package-install-from-buffer', or put it on your `load-path' and add these to your config: (autoload 'scpaste "scpaste" nil t) (autoload 'scpaste-region "scpaste" nil t) Set `scpaste-http-destination' and `scpaste-scp-destination' to appropriate values, and add this to your Emacs config: (setq scpaste-http-destination "https://p.hagelb.org" scpaste-scp-destination "p.hagelb.org:p.hagelb.org") If you have a different keyfile, you can set that, too: (setq scpaste-scp-pubkey "~/.ssh/my_keyfile.pub") If you use a non-standard ssh port, you can specify it by setting `scpaste-scp-port'. If you need to use alternative scp and ssh programs, you can set `scpaste-scp' and `scpaste-ssh'. For example, scpaste works with the Putty suite on Windows if you set these to pscp and plink, respectively. Optionally you can set the displayed name for the footer and where it should link to: (setq scpaste-user-name "Technomancy" scpaste-user-address "https://technomancy.us/") You can set `scpaste-async' to non-nil to run the upload in the background. ; Usage M-x scpaste, enter a name, and press return. The name will be incorporated into the URL by escaping it and adding it to the end of `scpaste-http-destination'. The URL for the pasted file will be pushed onto the kill ring. You can autogenerate a splash page that gets uploaded as index.html in `scpaste-http-destination' by invoking M-x scpaste-index. This will upload an explanation as well as a listing of existing pastes. If a paste's filename includes "private" it will be skipped. You probably want to set up SSH keys for your destination to avoid having to enter your password once for each paste. Also be sure the key of the host referenced in `scpaste-scp-destination' is in your known hosts file--scpaste will not prompt you to add it but will simply hang and need you to hit C-g to cancel it.