Today, someone on Hacker News pointed to an old post on Blogging With Emacs over at Work In Progress. Since some of my readers had expressed an interest in how I use Emacs and Org-mode to blog, I thought there might be some interest in seeing how someone else does the same thing.
The blog’s author takes a very different approach to blogging with Emacs than I do. First of all he uses Jekyll to generate a static site rather than using WordPress. That means that he doesn’t have the wonderful org2blog at his disposal but he solves that problem by using Org mode’s project publishing facility. I’ve never used that part of Org mode but it seems to be pretty nice. Bernt Hansen has a nice writeup on Publishing and Exporting with Org mode that you should read if you want to use this facility.
The Work In Progress post is interesting and shows how easily Emacs can handle different work flows to solve the same problem. My only quibble with the post is in the first sentence where he says, “I don’t want to waste time explaining why I use Emacs all day, every day, and eschew more traditional development environments.” I would argue that Emacs is the traditional editor—or at least that Emacs shares that honor with Vi. Yes, yes, I know all about ed but let’s be serious.
By the way, DJCB over at EMACS-FU also has an old post on using Org mode to blog, this time with Blogger. As always, there’s a lot to learn at EMACS-FU.