Vim and WordPress
November 4, 2006 – 9:17 pm[tags\]vim,wordpress,emacs keybindings,tri nguyen,blogging[/tags]
Part of the reason I have been a little slack in blogging has to do with the
editing options in WordPress. I basically do not enjoy the form editor and
find that when I try to draft a post, the tool and my annoyances with it are
distracting from the act of writing. Editing things via web interfaces
basically can be painful if, like me, you have vim (or if not like me emacs)
keybindings burned in your synapses.
What I have been looking for is a way to leverage my beloved Vim into my
blogging. Previous attempts had me draft the post in Vim on a client, then cut
and paste the entry into a new blog post. This ran into problems with the way
WordPress renders/wraps. So although the writing phase was what I am most
comfortable, the drudgery of joining lines in the WordPress editor was a drag.
Tonight I think I stumbled on a potential solution.
Tri Nguyen has
a nice post
about how to use a Python enabled Vim to post directly to WordPress. Although
I cannot seem to dial in the Markdown part of her scheme, the Vim-WordPress
post capability is scratching an itch for me.
