Avoid Page Breaks In \lstlistings

Answer :

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?

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.

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.