Using single color for lstinline

Question

I have the following:

\newcommand*{\code}{\lstinline}

It is (correctly) showing code in black, with keywords in blue. However, I would like all inline code to appear in a distinct color (browny/reddish). How can I achieve this?

Note that I can not redefine \code to look something like this:

\newcommand{\code}[1]{\lstinline{#1}}

This is because of this issue, wherein I have inline code snippets that includes backslashes. I started pursuing a solution that uses \color, but I couldn't figure out how to do that given the above constraint.

Answer 1

You can always add a particular listing style into the optional argument of lstinline:

\newcommand*{\code}{\lstinline[keywordstyle=\color{brown}, basicstyle=\color{brown}]}

In this case, you'll have to define another command when you need other listing settings.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{xcolor}

\newcommand*{\code}{\lstinline[keywordstyle=\color{brown}, basicstyle=\color{brown}]}

\newcommand*{\codered}{\lstinline[keywordstyle=\color{red}, basicstyle=\color{green}]}

\lstset{
    language=C,
    keywordstyle=\color{blue}
    }

\begin{document}

\lstinline{for (i=0; i<5; i++) if (i==0)}

\code{for (i=0; i<5; i++) if (i==0)}

\codered{for (i=0; i<5; i++) if (i==0)}

\end{document}