Being the dinosaur that I am, it seems a waste of time to keep learning new editors. Obviously there are many new ones that keep evolving along with all the wonderful software, however if one is not careful, one spends all their time learning how to drive editors and not actually doing much productive work! I’ve used Emacs for years, ever since it was the only way to cut and paste a “block” of data, intact. No doubt it is a bit clumsy, but once you tame the beast, it will do most anything. So when starting to build this website, using all this fancy technology, it occured to me that again using Emacs to create and publish the posts would be efficient. Reading other blogs, apparently it is but again taming the beast is a bit of challenge!
If you are interested, I found this from Ian Barton get started but it is a bit dated and some of the stuff has been updated and improved. Noteably to publish the site the command is C-c C-e P x (site as setup in .emacs file). Also thanks to Brian Wisti for showing how to easily install the emacs org-mode backend required to output an emacs file to markdown.
Currently I’ll just use a little publish shell script that came with the original website, seems to work quite well and updates both my github repository and also the bucket on the AWS S3 server where the website is stored.
Another advantage of some of this bloging stuff is keeping a record … so I can go back and find out how I managed to get something to work. And it has NOTHING to do with my age … :-)
