Double #s when defining a new command that uses \mint instead of using \mint directly

Question

Why does \dollarcom give a different result than \mint{bash}|$#|?

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{minted}

\newcommand{\dollarcom}{\mint{bash}/$#/}

\begin{document}

\dollarcom
\mint{bash}|$#|
\end{document}

Output:

Reading from the pdflatex output it seems like $# is taken as an illegal parameter number. In this case, how can I define a command with the same output of \mint{bash}|$#|?

Note: I absolutely do not want to use \mint{bash}|$#| in my text because the non-escaped $ breaks code highlighting in Kile and after that half of my LaTeX source looks green as if in math mode.

Update:

I found a hack to make Kile recognize a command as a \verb command. If you want to change the system's syntax highlightining open /usr/share/kde4/apps/katepart/syntax/latex.xml, if you want to add syntax highlighting only for your user open ~/.kde/share/apps/katepart/syntax/latex.xml. If the latter does not exist create the missing directories and copy the system-wide file into it.

Now modify the chosen file. In particular there is a section that looks like this:

  <!-- LaTeX command in text mode -->
  <context name="ContrSeq" attribute="Keyword" lineEndContext="#pop">
    <StringDetect String="verb*" attribute="Keyword" context="Verb"/>
    <RegExpr String="(Verb|verb|lstinline)(?=[^a-zA-Z])" attribute="Keyword" context="Verb"/>
    <DetectChar char="&#xd7;" attribute="Bullet" context="#stay"/>
    <RegExpr String="[a-zA-Z@]+(\+?|\*{0,3})" attribute="Keyword" context="#pop"/>
    <RegExpr String="[^a-zA-Z]" attribute="Keyword" context="#pop" />
  </context>
  <context name="ToEndOfLine" attribute="Normal Text" lineEndContext="#pop">
  </context>

Modify the line <RegExpr String="(Verb... to:

<RegExpr String="(Verb|verb|lstinline|mint|mint\{[a-zA-Z0-9=, ]+\})(?=[^a-zA-Z])" attribute="Keyword" context="Verb"/>

This will allow kile to highlight \mint|text| or \mint{some,options}|text| in the correct way.

To make Kile highlight also the minted environments check for the section that looks like:

  <!-- filter the environment name and check the type -->
  <context name="BeginEnvironment" attribute="Environment" lineEndContext="#stay">
    <RegExpr String="(lstlisting|(B|L)?Verbatim)" attribute="Environment" context="VerbatimEnvParam"/>
    <RegExpr String="(verbatim|boxedverbatim)" attribute="Environment" context="VerbatimEnv"/>

And change the last line to:

    <RegExpr String="(verbatim|boxedverbatim|minted)" attribute="Environment" context="VerbatimEnv"/>

Look for the section:

  <!-- parse verbatim text -->
  <context name="Verbatim" attribute="Verbatim" lineEndContext="#stay">
    <DetectChar char="&#xd7;" attribute="Bullet" context="#stay"/>
    <RegExpr String="\\end(?=\s*\{(verbatim|lstlisting|boxedverbatim|(B|L)?Verbatim)\*?\})" attribute="Structure"  context="VerbFindEnd"/>
  </context>

And change the RegExpr line with:

    <RegExpr String="\\end(?=\s*\{(verbatim|lstlisting|boxedverbatim|minted|(B|L)?Verbatim)\*?\})" attribute="Structure"  context="VerbFindEnd"/>

Look for the section:

  <!-- end of verbatim environment -->
  <context name="VerbFindEnd" attribute="Normal Text" lineEndContext="#pop" fallthrough="true" fallthroughContext="#pop">
    <RegExpr String="\s*\{" attribute="Normal Text" context="#stay"/>
    <RegExpr String="(verbatim|lstlisting|boxedverbatim|(B|L)?Verbatim)\*?" attribute="Environment" context="#stay"/>
    <DetectChar char="}" attribute="Normal Text" context="#pop#pop#pop#pop#pop" endRegion="block"/>
  </context>

And Change the second RegExpr line to:

    <RegExpr String="(verbatim|lstlisting|boxedverbatim|minted|(B|L)?Verbatim)\*?" attribute="Environment" context="#stay"/>

After that Kile should correctly highlight the minted environments.

I think there should be a way to add at least user-specific syntaxes, if not for each file, but I cannot find any syntax directory in ~/.kde/*.

Unfortunately this does not highlight "shortcuts", so you either have to add all of them manually, or you must use `minted with all the options every time.

Answer 1

You have to define \dollarcom with a "stringified #":

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{minted}

\edef\dollarcom{\noexpand\mint{bash}/$\string#/}

\begin{document}

\dollarcom

\mint{bash}|$#|

\end{document}