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Blogging With Emacs

75 points by mofeeta 15y ago

juanre 15y ago
I wrote org-jekyll to blog from org-mode, and have been using emacs to produce all my sites ever since: http://juanreyero.com/open/org-jekyll/ http://juanreyero.com/open/org-jekyll/ The problem I was trying to solve with org-jekyll was separating more or less static content, generated with standard org-publish, from blog posts, generated by org-jekyll and going to the _posts directory (and thus being part of the feed generation, etc). I haven't kept up with org-mode development lately, there might be easier ways to do it now.
codeherb 15y ago
You can also use github repositories to actually serve up your blog if you use jekyll! I run my blog using this setup + github and it works pretty well.
- rcfox 15y ago
  You can even point domains at these, so that GitHub hosts your content but it's all under your domain name.
tjpick 15y ago
"up to you to generate the quality content that only you can generate" Surely there's a more elegant way to state that. One that doesn't use the words "generate" and "content".
- cmiles74 15y ago
  Ick, it looks that much worse when someone is quoting me! Consider me duly shamed for that absolutely awful sentence.
lambada 15y ago
It seems to me this article would be better titled as 'Blogging with Jekyll' as Jekyll seems to be the time it spends most of its time on.
- cmiles74 15y ago
  That is a good point. When I started this post, my goal was to put something together that would let me write the articles from Emacs and easily get them out on the internets. It turned out that the Jekyll part took much more time than the Org Mode part.
access_denied 15y ago
Nice set-up, but does it work with proper quotation and international chars like them umläuts? What about correct hyphenation? Is it supported? Does all that work in conjunction with the clipboard of Mac OS X? A: it does not and that is why Emacs does not rule. I like the tools (Emacs, Jekyll, Org-Mode), but they are useless for literary works.
zrail 15y ago
Org-mode always seems cool but I have never really gotten around to trying it out. What I find myself needing lately is a universal input system that lets me send it data from emacs, web, email, and mobile, as well as easy review and categorization and all that jazz. Ideally I'd be able to take that and directly reference it in an emacs buffer while I write a blog post or something. Any ideas?
- juanre 15y ago
  In OSX it's not too hard to set up with orgmode. This will allow you to easily link to mail: (require 'org-mac-message) (global-set-key (read-kbd-macro "C-c C-x m") 'org-mac-message-insert-selected) I find that the easiest way to categorize email, especially when I need to generate a todo item from it (to be later ignored among way too many todo items), is to link to it from an org-mode buffer. There are tools for referencing directly to whatever is in your browser, check out org-mac-protocol (https://github.com/claviclaws/org-mac-protocol https://github.com/claviclaws/org-mac-protocol). There's also an iphone app that allows input from your iphone and easy syncing with emacs and orgmode, http://mobileorg.ncogni.to/ http://mobileorg.ncogni.to/.
  - zrail 15y ago
    That iPhone app looks cool. I was thinking more along the lines of being able to email a special address and it automatically getting appended to an org buffer, or something like that.
- eschulte 15y ago
  Org-mode links can point to all sorts of content including email, web pages, specific lines in files on your system, etc... see http://orgmode.org/manual/Hyperlinks.html http://orgmode.org/manual/Hyperlinks.html
eschulte 15y ago
For more information on bloggin from Org-mode, see http://orgmode.org/worg/org-blog-wiki.html http://orgmode.org/worg/org-blog-wiki.html Also, the many options available in Org-mode projects make jekyll nearly superfluous (e.g., things like site wide css/js and page templates are baked in), see http://orgmode.org/manual/Publishing.html http://orgmode.org/manual/Publishing.html
pinchyfingers 15y ago
I just stick with Emacs for composing posts. Format them with Markdown and copy from my Emacs buffer into Wordpress. Simple enough for me. All the files are on Github, so I guess I could create a plug-in to pull from Github into Wordpress, but after spending an hour writing an article, spending two seconds hitting cutting and pasting isn't a significant waste of time.
baali 15y ago
There is also this org2blog(https://github.com/punchagan/org2blog https://github.com/punchagan/org2blog) which lets you publish directly from Emacs’ org-mode to WordPress blogs.
maigret 15y ago
As a side note, the author has a very beautiful color scheme on the screenshot. I suspect the Solarized scheme.
- cmiles74 15y ago
  That is correct! I'm using sellout's Solarized color theme for Emacs[0]. It's also available in the Marmalade[1] repository under "color-theme-solarized". [0] https://github.com/sellout/emacs-color-theme-solarized https://github.com/sellout/emacs-color-theme-solarized [1] http://marmalade-repo.org/ http://marmalade-repo.org/
  - maigret 15y ago
    For me it conflicts with the Gnome Terminal Solarized theme though. I had to switch to GTK Emacs (from emacs -nw) to get the color scheme to work. But it looks fantastic now :)
scottjad 15y ago
If you just want to use org-mode with Octopress this is how: http://jaderholm.com/blog/blog/2011/09/26/blogging-with-org-mode-and-octopress/ http://jaderholm.com/blog/blog/2011/09/26/blogging-with-org-...
Macphisto 15y ago
org-mode is the gateway drug for emacs and in my opinion, one of the things that makes emacs great. A user, Carsten Dominik had a need for someone, hacked some elisp and it grew into something awesome. It's still one of my favorite pieces of software.
rwboyer 15y ago
Having Vi burned into my muscle memory since the 80's I could never use (literally) emacs for more than 30seconds without inevitably random "i"'s, some "/regx", etc embedded in my text - (that and the RMI inducing ctl-meta-esc-alt-x'ing thing ;)) I love Jekyll/Octopress - but my tool chain of choice for post writing is... IA -> Marked -> jekyll/s3cmd with a tripwire script -> s3 -> cloudfront Write - save - blam. RB

75 points by mofeeta 15y ago

I wrote org-jekyll to blog from org-mode, and have been using emacs to produce all my sites ever since: http://juanreyero.com/open/org-jekyll/ http://juanreyero.com/open/org-jekyll/ The problem I was trying to solve with org-jekyll was separating more or less static content, generated with standard org-publish, from blog posts, generated by org-jekyll and going to the _posts directory (and thus being part of the feed generation, etc). I haven't kept up with org-mode development lately, there might be easier ways to do it now.

codeherb 15y ago

You can also use github repositories to actually serve up your blog if you use jekyll! I run my blog using this setup + github and it works pretty well.

rcfox 15y ago
You can even point domains at these, so that GitHub hosts your content but it's all under your domain name.

tjpick 15y ago

"up to you to generate the quality content that only you can generate" Surely there's a more elegant way to state that. One that doesn't use the words "generate" and "content".

cmiles74 15y ago
Ick, it looks that much worse when someone is quoting me! Consider me duly shamed for that absolutely awful sentence.

lambada 15y ago

It seems to me this article would be better titled as 'Blogging with Jekyll' as Jekyll seems to be the time it spends most of its time on.

cmiles74 15y ago
That is a good point. When I started this post, my goal was to put something together that would let me write the articles from Emacs and easily get them out on the internets. It turned out that the Jekyll part took much more time than the Org Mode part.

access_denied 15y ago

Nice set-up, but does it work with proper quotation and international chars like them umläuts? What about correct hyphenation? Is it supported? Does all that work in conjunction with the clipboard of Mac OS X? A: it does not and that is why Emacs does not rule. I like the tools (Emacs, Jekyll, Org-Mode), but they are useless for literary works.

zrail 15y ago

Org-mode always seems cool but I have never really gotten around to trying it out. What I find myself needing lately is a universal input system that lets me send it data from emacs, web, email, and mobile, as well as easy review and categorization and all that jazz. Ideally I'd be able to take that and directly reference it in an emacs buffer while I write a blog post or something. Any ideas?

juanre 15y ago
In OSX it's not too hard to set up with orgmode. This will allow you to easily link to mail: (require 'org-mac-message) (global-set-key (read-kbd-macro "C-c C-x m") 'org-mac-message-insert-selected) I find that the easiest way to categorize email, especially when I need to generate a todo item from it (to be later ignored among way too many todo items), is to link to it from an org-mode buffer. There are tools for referencing directly to whatever is in your browser, check out org-mac-protocol (https://github.com/claviclaws/org-mac-protocol https://github.com/claviclaws/org-mac-protocol). There's also an iphone app that allows input from your iphone and easy syncing with emacs and orgmode, http://mobileorg.ncogni.to/ http://mobileorg.ncogni.to/.
- zrail 15y ago
  That iPhone app looks cool. I was thinking more along the lines of being able to email a special address and it automatically getting appended to an org buffer, or something like that.
eschulte 15y ago
Org-mode links can point to all sorts of content including email, web pages, specific lines in files on your system, etc... see http://orgmode.org/manual/Hyperlinks.html http://orgmode.org/manual/Hyperlinks.html

eschulte 15y ago

For more information on bloggin from Org-mode, see http://orgmode.org/worg/org-blog-wiki.html http://orgmode.org/worg/org-blog-wiki.html Also, the many options available in Org-mode projects make jekyll nearly superfluous (e.g., things like site wide css/js and page templates are baked in), see http://orgmode.org/manual/Publishing.html http://orgmode.org/manual/Publishing.html

pinchyfingers 15y ago

I just stick with Emacs for composing posts. Format them with Markdown and copy from my Emacs buffer into Wordpress. Simple enough for me. All the files are on Github, so I guess I could create a plug-in to pull from Github into Wordpress, but after spending an hour writing an article, spending two seconds hitting cutting and pasting isn't a significant waste of time.

baali 15y ago

There is also this org2blog(https://github.com/punchagan/org2blog https://github.com/punchagan/org2blog) which lets you publish directly from Emacs’ org-mode to WordPress blogs.

maigret 15y ago

As a side note, the author has a very beautiful color scheme on the screenshot. I suspect the Solarized scheme.

cmiles74 15y ago
That is correct! I'm using sellout's Solarized color theme for Emacs[0]. It's also available in the Marmalade[1] repository under "color-theme-solarized". [0] https://github.com/sellout/emacs-color-theme-solarized https://github.com/sellout/emacs-color-theme-solarized [1] http://marmalade-repo.org/ http://marmalade-repo.org/
- maigret 15y ago
  For me it conflicts with the Gnome Terminal Solarized theme though. I had to switch to GTK Emacs (from emacs -nw) to get the color scheme to work. But it looks fantastic now :)

scottjad 15y ago

If you just want to use org-mode with Octopress this is how: http://jaderholm.com/blog/blog/2011/09/26/blogging-with-org-mode-and-octopress/ http://jaderholm.com/blog/blog/2011/09/26/blogging-with-org-...

Macphisto 15y ago

org-mode is the gateway drug for emacs and in my opinion, one of the things that makes emacs great. A user, Carsten Dominik had a need for someone, hacked some elisp and it grew into something awesome. It's still one of my favorite pieces of software.

rwboyer 15y ago

Having Vi burned into my muscle memory since the 80's I could never use (literally) emacs for more than 30seconds without inevitably random "i"'s, some "/regx", etc embedded in my text - (that and the RMI inducing ctl-meta-esc-alt-x'ing thing ;)) I love Jekyll/Octopress - but my tool chain of choice for post writing is... IA -> Marked -> jekyll/s3cmd with a tripwire script -> s3 -> cloudfront Write - save - blam. RB