I’ve never really gotten into the WYSIWYG HTML editor (TinyMCE) that comes with WordPress. It’s an impressive application of DHTML, but for blog posting I don’t need a ton of fancy formatting and would rather have something lightweight, fast, and keyboard-oriented. Like for instance, Emacs.
Do you post to your blogs using Emacs? What package(s) do you use?
M-x post-to-blog
Yes, these CSS styles are a blatantly ripped off and then hacked version of the stuff from http://emacsen.org/.
I use a 2 step process to post to my s9y blog
– Use muse-mode to write the blog using wiki markup and get the htmlized output
– Use a php script from the command line to call my blog’s xml-rpc interface to post the article (this shows a small prototype http://rajshekhar.net/content/view/32/26/)
This process can be made better by having a lisp function to automatically call the convert-to-html function and the php script, but I don’t know enough lisp to do that.
I post to my blog using Emacs. I didn’t need any special packages, although I happen to use psgml mode to make sure my markup is well-formed. Of course, this is why I picked blosxom for my blog in the first place. I write stuff in my text editor, I save it to a file, it shows up in my blog.
I use nxml-mode to write Atom Entry Documents which my blog software then turns into HTML pages.