Re: e-blog.el help please

Re: e-blog.el help please

[Anselm Helbig]

At Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:58:16 -0700 (PDT),
rpd <richard@dickinson350.freeserve.co.uk> 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?

From looking at the code, it seems like `e-blog-auth' is empty. This
should only be the case if the authentication failed. Do you see
anything suspicious in the *Messages* buffer? It's hard to tell what
is going on without actually running the code. 8-)

Maybe it works if you try another action first? 

HTH, 

Anselm


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Anselm Helbig 
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e-blog.el help please

[rpd]

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/blogger-with-emacs-in-windows.html
;;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
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Re: e-blog.el help please

[ken]

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/blogger-with-emacs-in-windows.html
> ;;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

Re: e-blog.el help please

[Xah Lee]

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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