From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: intranet blogging from emacs Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:26:02 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <14a8e44e-5a73-415a-90d6-6ebd4a878f30@y33g2000prg.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237695803 23202 80.91.229.12 (22 Mar 2009 04:23:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 04:23:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 22 05:24:40 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LlFEj-0002jw-VU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:24:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58192 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LlFDN-0002kN-6q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:23:13 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!y33g2000prg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 73 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.175.142 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1237681563 14476 127.0.0.1 (22 Mar 2009 00:26:03 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:26:03 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: y33g2000prg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.175.142; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167898 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:22:53 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:63191 Archived-At: On Mar 21, 5:05 am, Rustom Mody wrote: > I am exploring lightweight options for creating an (intranet) blog of my > team members. > What are the options for pushing out from emacs to a blog-publish share > location? here's some info might be useful to you: =E2=80=A2 e-blog by Mikey Coulson works great with google blog (blogger). =E2=80=A2 LjUpdate package by Edward O'Connor works fantastic for livejourn= al. Others i've tried: blogger.el and WebloggerMode, does not work for me. Also, emacspeak supposed to work with blogger too, but i've read from blogs recently that it's also problematic. For some detail about these: =E2=80=A2 A Emacs Frustration (blogger package) http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/emacs_blogger_package_pain.html ---------- depending on what your intranet blog is... w3m is primarily a text-based browser like lynx, launched from command line. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3m Emacs has a interface to it, called w3m, so that you can browse web in emacs. from my experience, this combination is actually some 5 times slower than full featured web browsers. (my w3m has image loading turned off, while my web browser has images on, and js and css on.) today, js is almost a requirement for most major sites. Without js support, w3 can't use many sites. personally i use w3m occasionally for my work involving dictionary lookup. Overall, i don't recommend it, because you have spend hours or days to install, learn to use it, and on the whole the benefit isn't great. (e.g. compared to a browser, some 5 times slower, no js, ugly display, and often badly formed, and so on) as other suggested, you could just use w3m to update your blogs thru the standard web interface. However, i've not tried this. In fact, these days i simply use full featured browser to update my blogger blogs. I find it faster, more convenient, in general, then trying to do it within emacs. Typically, one button press switch me to browser, few clicks with the interface gets me to the blog update page, one button switch me to emacs, write, switch, paste, click to update. Repeat if necessary, or use any of the editing or admin features in the blog interface, which usually won't be there in any integrated emacs blog uploading modes. part of the reason that web interface works better in general for me, besides above reasons, is that usually my blog writing involves complicated html (such as css marked syntax coloring of code snippets), and sometimes plain text mixed with the particular mark- down and html (such as links). The simplified mark-up lang used for each blog site are different (and there's no one standard or predominant one). The emacs blog modes typically support plain text only. Any extra features available on the blog, such as the extensive admin and blog archive editing or comment management etc provided by google's blogger, is not there. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84