Re: e-blog.el help please

[Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>]

On Aug 27, 3:26 am, ken <geb...@mousecar.com> wrote:
> e-blog didn't work for me either.  I posted about it months ago, never
> got a reply, so just gave up on it.
>
> --
> War is a failure of the imagination.
>         --William Blake
>
> On 08/27/2009 05:58 AM rpd wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi
> > I want to use e-blog.el to help post to my google blogger blogspot but it
> > doesn't work
> > (curl is installed & works - I am running Vista O/S).
>
> > Here is the error message when I  do M-x e-blog-new-post & after I have put
> > in my username & pwd:
>
> > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
> >   call-process("curl" nil "*e-blog*" nil "--stderr" "/dev/null" "--header"
> > nil "http://www.blogger.com/feeds/default/blogs")
> >   (let (feed) (set-buffer e-blog-buffer) (erase-buffer) (message "Requesting
> > list of blogs...") (call-process "curl" nil e-blog-buffer nil "--stderr"
> > "/dev/null" "--header" e-blog-auth e-blog-fetch-bloglist-url) (setq feed
> > (buffer-substring ... ...)) (message "Requesting list of blogs... Done.")
> > feed)
> >   e-blog-fetch-bloglist()
> >   (e-blog-parse-xml (e-blog-fetch-bloglist))
> >   (e-blog-setup-choose-buffer (e-blog-parse-xml (e-blog-fetch-bloglist)))
> >   e-blog-choose()
> >   (if (e-blog-check-authinfo) (e-blog-choose))
> >   e-blog-do-auth()
> >   (progn (e-blog-do-auth) (e-blog-choose))
> >   (if e-blog-auth (e-blog-choose) (progn (e-blog-do-auth) (e-blog-choose)))
> >   e-blog-new-post()
> >   call-interactively(e-blog-new-post)
> >   execute-extended-command(nil)
> >   call-interactively(execute-extended-command)
>
> > Can anyone help me fix this please?
>
> > (I saw this on internet search & tried it but it didn't work:
> > ;;e-blog.el Blogger with Emacs in Windows
> > ;;http://deepakramani.home.comcast.net/~deepakramani/Blog/2009/07/blogg...
> > ;;1.Comment lines that read: "--stderr" "/dev/null"
> > ;;2.Beneath the commented lines add the line "--insecure"
> > ;;This isn't ideal, since the communication is not secure, but it works fine
> > for me.
>
> > ;;-Well no-it didn't work for me!so I have switched back! )
>
> > Many thanks

guys, please post a issue at e-blog home page here:
http://code.google.com/p/e-blog/issues/list

that way the author is at least aware that there are many requests.
Whether he's gonna find time to fix is another issue.

i was enthusiatic about e-blog a year ago. It worked for plain text
blog, but doesn't work if your blog is slightly complicated html.
Since i need to use full html, so i stopped using e-blog. I simply use
the dedicated browser these days.

  Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

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