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Blogging from emacs org-mode

Blogging

README

• These are some setup files for blogging to blogger.com from emacs org-mode
• My .emacs.d/ setup for context https://github.com/eludom/dotfiles/tree/master/.emacs.d

Atom blogging via BPE

BPE Installation

DONE Install Google Client commandline/API tools

On Ubuntu try

sudo apt-get install googlecl

DONE Insall g-client emacs interface

See

• http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GoogleClient
• http://emacspeak.blogspot.com/2007/03/emacs-client-for-google-services.html
• http://emacsgeek.blogspot.com/

DONE Configure package

For me this looked like

cd ~src
bzunzip2 g-client.tar.bz2
tar -xvf g-client.tar
cd src/g-client
make config
make

DONE install BPE form packages

BPE configuraiton code

; set up emacs interface to googlecl
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/src/g-client" t)
(load-library "g")

; setup bpe
(require 'bpe)
(require 'htmlize nil 'noerror) ; to fontify source code block on your blog.
(setq bpe:account   "yourUsername@gmail.com")
(setq bpe:blog-name "yourBlogname")
(define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-c C-p") 'bpe:post-article)
(define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-c C-i") 'bpe:insert-template)
;; For Japanese, default is $LANG environment variable.
;(setq bpe:lang "ja_JP.UTF-8")

BPE posting

• open an .org file
• C-c C-i to insert a template
• write the post
• C-c C-p to posts
• posts as draft
• bug: have to insert a " tagname" after "#+TAG:" in template.

Wordpress blogging

Wordpress configuration code

(setq load-path (cons "~/.emacs.d/elpa/org2blog-20130704.908/" load-path))
(require 'org2blog-autoloads)

(setq org2blog/wp-blog-alist
'(("wordpress"
:url "http://yourUsername.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php"
:username "yourUsername"
:default-title "Goodbye World"
:default-categories ("org2blog" "emacs")
:tags-as-categories nil)
("food8forthought"
:url "http://yourUsername.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php"
:username "yourUsername"
:default-title "Set a title next time"
:default-categories ("word" "vi")
:tags-as-categories nil)
))

(message "blogging.org finished.")

Blogging fom org-mode

What this is

• These are some setup files for blogging to blogger.com from emacs org-mode
• This is an orgified version of my ~/.emacs.d/30-bloging.org
• My .emacs.d/ setup for context https://github.com/eludom/dotfiles/tree/master/.emacs.d

Blogging setup and TODO list

DONE Install Google Client

Google Client

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GoogleClient

g-client setup

http://emacspeak.blogspot.com/2007/03/emacs-client-for-google-services.html

g-cus-load.el missing

http://emacsgeek.blogspot.com/

DONE install bpe from packages

TODO Post this to usefulfoo blog

TODO Set up Org2BlogAtom http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Org2BlogAtom

The Code

; google services setup
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/g-client" t)
(load-library "g")
(message "blogging.org finished.")

Automatic screen locking on XFCE/Security Onion

Screen Locking on XFCE

This may be old-school, but I like to have X screen locking. It does not come by default on XFCE and, by extension on Security Onion
To get it working, I did the following:

apt-get install xautolock

Created ~/.config/autostart/runXinitrc.desktop with the following content

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Script
Type=Application
Exec=/ASOLUTE/PATH/TO/HOME/.xinitrc
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=false
Hidden=false

Created .xinitrc with the following content:

xautolock -time 15 -locker /usr/bin/xflock4 &

And, as an added bonus, for those who want the control key to the left of A where God and Richard Stallman intended it, create ~/.config/autostart/ with the following (change Exec location to suit):

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Script
Type=Application
Exec=/ASOLUTE/PATH/TO/HOME/bin/fixctrl.sh
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=false
Hidden=false

and finally, create /ASOLUTE/PATH/TO/HOME/bin/fixctrl.sh with:

setxkbmap -option 'ctrl:nocaps'

…yes, there are probably better, simpler ways to do all this…

ArkOS

http://m.slashdot.org/story/192479

org mode refiling

http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#Refiling

How retro can I go? Sketchnotes: visual thinking on paper.

In the possiblyUsefulFoo category

http://www.core77.com/blog/sketchnotes/sketchnotes_101_the_basics_of_visual_note-taking_19678.asp

I'm already using a 35-year-old text editor (emacs, org-mode) for most of my thinking and
writing.    Why not go even more retro?

This is more "amusingfoo" than "usefulfoo"

Unix tool tip (@UnixToolTip) tweeted at 9:24 AM on Thu, Jun 20, 2013: Emacs unfill-paragraph and unfill-region http://t.co/Q9zXOJ86X4 (https://twitter.com/UnixToolTip/status/347706446848356353) Get the official Twitter app at https://twitter.com/download

Adding new Mac OSX keyboard shortcuts

No default keyboard shortcut for  "maximize window" (Zoom).  Sheesh.

And, of course, Emacs does not honor it even when defined.

http://osxdaily.com/2013/03/22/5-simple-window-management-keyboard-shortcuts-to-improve-workflow-in-mac-os-x/

remote git repository as backup/central point ... needs to be "bare"

http://bitflop.com/document/111

Ediff

http://emacslife.blogspot.com/2006/12/ediff-mode-one-of-most-amazing-modes-in.html?m=1

Fix EOL in emacs

Emacs Lisp: Convert Line Ending

Deep magic from the before the dawn of time

If you ever found yourself wanting to execute a sudo(1) command from within block of shell code in a org-bable source code block on a linux system (sure, happens all the time, right?), here's the deep foo to solve the password prompting quandry:

Sylvain Rousseau | 4 Mar 2012 18:29
  
 
Re: Is it possible to run shell script src blocks as root or to export individual blocks?

Under Gnome, I'm using this at the beginning of a sh source block:

 echo -e "#! /bin/bash\n/usr/bin/gksudo -p -m Password" > /tmp/gksudo-stdout
 chmod +x /tmp/gksudo-stdout
 SUDO_ASKPASS="/tmp/gksudo-stdout" sudo -A -s


Sylvain.

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/52979

Emacs Lisp Idioms (for writing interactive commands)

http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/elisp_idioms.html