[Emacsweblogs] Re: weblogger.el and tags

[David Abrahams]

Hi Mark,

Sorry about the slow response time.  Busy blogging ;-)

On Aug 30, 2009, at 9:27 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:

> [Ccing the emacsweblogs mailing list]
>
> David Abrahams <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I select the body of the buffer, then `M-x
> > my-clone-region-set-mode<RET>markdown-mode' and away I go.  The only
> > problem is that unless I make changes *directly* in the weblogger- 
> > entry
> > buffer (not the clone), `C-c C-c' in the weblogger-entry buffer  
> > tells me
> > "nothing to post."
>
> I have been thinking about ways to make weblogger.el work with other
> modes better.  Some people prefer to type theirs up in SGML, others
> nxhtml, others org, and still others (e.g. you) in markdown.
>
> I think the way to solve this is to tie the weblogger buffer to the
> “content” buffer instead of the other way around.

Well, perhaps.  I don't know enough about the internals of  
weblogger.el to really understand what that means.

> That way, for
> example, you would start writing up your blog entry in a markdown mode
> buffer and then invoke, say, weblogger-convert-and-post-buffer.

That could work, but what about editing an existing draft?

> weblogger-convert-and-post-buffer would look for a buffer-local  
> variable
> (say, weblogger-conversion-function) that points to a conversion
> function.  It would call this function to get HTML code suitable for
> posting


Oh, gee, I don't think I want that!  My posts really are written in  
Markdown, not raw HTML.  I'm using Wordpress plugins that cause the  
Markdown to be displayed as HTML, dynamically.

> This HTML would be used for the body section of the post and you could
> fill out the other fields as needed.
>
> If you change the primary buffer, weblogger.el would be able to see  
> that
> and update the body of the post.  You'd still be able to use
> weblogger.el to edit the raw html if you wish, of course.
>
> The could be other hooks for weblogger-convert-and-post-buffer to use.
> Org, for instance, allows you to set the title for a buffer and this
> could be carried over to the title of the weblogger post.  Similar
> things could be done for date stamps, tags, etc.
>
> What do you think?

Really, I just want my clone-region-set-mode thingy to work (i.e.  
cause weblogger to know the buffer has been changed).  I'll probably  
want to do the clone thing at multiple levels anyway, since I put C++  
code in my blog posts and I'll sometimes want to edit that in c++-mode.

BTW, how do I create a new post with weblogger?  It's totally awesome  
aside from these two issues I can't seem to get around!

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