David Abrahams <d...@boostpro.com> writes: > 0. Looks pretty nice!
Thanks! > 1. entering and exiting the edit mode without making changes marks the > buffer as modified and these changes seem to get put into the undo > history. I don't think we want either of those behaviors. Right, that is a bug. > 2. I'd like some universal way to get back to weblogger-mode without > “M-x weblogger-toggle-edit-body RET”. In fact, I'd also like to be > able to post new articles and update existing posts without > returning to weblogger. I'm sure I can code these things up > myself, but if weblogger-mode is aiming to be make blogging > painless for Emacs users, it should make these kinds of services > easy and/or available OOTB. I totally agree. I'd like to get rid of the reliance on message-mode entirely. Except for editing meta information (titles, tags, dates) there is no need for it right now. If we had an list of methods that took a buffer from a particular mode to some universal format and then another set that could take it from the universal format and communicate it to a weblogging engine, that would be almost ideal. Then one could simply invoke, say weblogger-post-this-buffer or weblogger-post-this-region and it (might) prompt you for a title and tags, but the rest would be seamless. So, for example, posting from an org-mode buffer to a weblog hosted on Blogger.com, after invoking weblogger-post-this-buffer, weblogger jumps into action and executes this (hypothetical) series of functions: weblogger-post-this-buffer -translate-this -grab-meta-information ; some modes (org-mode) have ways to ; embed meta information already. -prompt-for-targets ; should be possible to post to multiple blogs ; with one go -get-meta-information -determine-missing-meta-information -prompt-for-meta-information ; some blogging engines have ; different needs -post-to-weblog -post-with-atom-blogger ; to get it to blogger.com This is just a rough idea off the top of my head, but I think this can, as you point out, all be done without requiring a special weblogger-mode (which was a hack from the beginning). Mark. -- http://hexmode.com/ The only alternative to Tradition is bad tradition. — Jaraslov Pelikan _______________________________________________ Emacsweblogs mailing list Emacsweblogs@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsweblogs