Avoid page breaks in \lstlistings

Question

I'm trying to avoid page breaks in my lstlisting (seen in section 0.0.2) I know I can remedy this by floating my lstlisting, but it adds some unwanted white space (seen in section 0.0.1).

Is there an alternative to float so that my lstlisting will not break across pages?

OR

Can I configure float to eliminate the white space so it looks identical to how it is when not in a float

*I apologize for the cruft in my MWE. I'm just trying to use this in a much larger document, so I'd rather keep it as close to it as possible.

\documentclass{article}

% New commands
\newcommand{\HRule}{\rule{\linewidth}{0.5mm}}
\newcommand{\superscript}[1]{\ensuremath{^{\textrm{#1}}}}

% Modified commands
\renewcommand*\abstractname{Revision History}

%%%%% Packages and configuration %%%%%
\usepackage[firstpage]{draftwatermark}
\SetWatermarkText{\textsc{Confidential}}
\SetWatermarkScale{4}
\SetWatermarkColor[gray]{0.9}

%\usepackage{fancyhdr}
%\pagestyle{fancy}
%\fancyhf{} % clear all fields
%\fancyfoot[LE,CO]{\thepage}           % page number in "outer" position of footer line
%\fancyfoot[RE,LO]{Message of the day} % other info in "inner" position of footer line

\usepackage{tabularx}

\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\definecolor{dark-red}{rgb}{0.4,0.15,0.15}
\definecolor{dark-blue}{rgb}{0.15,0.15,0.4}
\definecolor{medium-blue}{rgb}{0,0,0.5}
\definecolor{light-grey}{gray}{0.8}

\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}% keep at end
\hypersetup{
    colorlinks,
    linkcolor={black},
    citecolor={dark-blue}, 
    urlcolor={medium-blue}
}

%\usepackage[cm]{fullpage}
%\usepackage[letterpaper, top=0.7in, bottom=0.9in, left=0.7in, right=0.7in, showframe]{geometry}
\usepackage[margin=0.5in]{geometry}


%\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{ %
language=C,                % choose the language of the code
basicstyle=\footnotesize,       % the size of the fonts that are used for the code
%numbers=left,                   % where to put the line-numbers
%numberstyle=\footnotesize,      % the size of the fonts that are used for the line-numbers
%stepnumber=1,                   % the step between two line-numbers. If it is 1 each line will be numbered
%numbersep=5pt,                  % how far the line-numbers are from the code
%backgroundcolor=\color{white},  % choose the background color. You must add \usepackage{color}
showspaces=false,               % show spaces adding particular underscores
showstringspaces=false,         % underline spaces within strings
showtabs=false,                 % show tabs within strings adding particular underscores
%frame=single,           % adds a frame around the code
tabsize=4,          % sets default tabsize to 4 spaces
captionpos=b,           % sets the caption-position to bottom
breaklines=true,        % sets automatic line breaking
breakatwhitespace=false,    % sets if automatic breaks should only happen at whitespace
%escapeinside={\%*}{*)}          % if you want to add a comment within your code
}

\usepackage{mdwlist}
\usepackage{underscore}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{lipsum}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\usepackage{etex}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\@afterheading}%
    {\clubpenalty \@M}{\clubpenalties 2 \@M \@M }{}{}
\patchcmd{\@afterheading}%
    {\clubpenalty \@clubpenalty}{\clubpenalties 1 \@clubpenalty }{}{}
\makeatother
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1-8]

\subsubsection{Lorem Ipsum Dolomite}\leavevmode
\begin{lstlisting}
void abc_defgh_ijklmn_stuff * const ( void );
\end{lstlisting}

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\subsubsection{abcde}
\begin{lstlisting}
static boolean abcde
(
abc_defg_hijk * const   lm
);
\end{lstlisting}

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\end{document}

Answer 1

Wrapping the lstlisting inside a minipage (of width \linewidth) boxes the content making it unbreakable and avoids breaking across the page boundary:

...
\begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
\begin{lstlisting}
static boolean abcde
(
abc_defg_hijk * const   lm
);
\end{lstlisting}
\end{minipage}
...

Depending on the location of usage, you may have to prepend the environment with \noindent to avoid any paragraph indentation.

A somewhat similar approach is followed if you load the float package and use

...
\begin{lstlisting}[float,floatplacement=H]
static boolean abcde
(
abc_defg_hijk * const   lm
);
\end{lstlisting}
...

More on the float placement H is discussed in How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?

Answer 2

I'm using version 1.5 (2013) of the listings package. I use lstinputlisting to include the code from the file, and I just put float inside the options of the environment. It works fine.

For example, this goes in my preamble:

\lstdefinestyle{freefempp}{
  language=C++,
  basicstyle=\footnotesize\ttfamily,
  commentstyle=\itshape\color{violet},
  identifierstyle=\color{blue},
  morekeywords={ border, buildmesh, cos, dx, dy, fespace, fill, func,
    int2d, label, mesh, on, pi, plot, problem, sin, real, x, y},
  % float,
  frame=single,
  numbers=left
}

\lstset{style=freefempp}

And this goes in my document's body.

\lstinputlisting
  [caption=Solution to question 1, float, linerange={1-21}, firstnumber=1]
  {listings/ex1-1.edp}

However, the float option only works inside the lstinputlisting environment definition, not inside the style definition. Maybe this bug will be corrected in future versions.

Answer 3

I use a similar solution to the one proposed by werner. However I prefer to define the minipage with text instead of line width:

\begin{minipage}[c]{0.95\textwidth}
\begin{lstlisting}

\end{lstlisting}
\end{minipage}

"c" for centering and "0.95\textwidth" to make the listing a little bit smaller than the rest of the text.