Posting from vim

January 15th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink

A while ago, I got excited about posting to this blog from vim. Then I upgraded things, got distracted, forgot about it, and it seems now _not to work_

easiest way I can find is to save the text into a new file, then do:


google blogger post --title "Posting from vim" --tags "technology, vim,google,howto" %

Patch: blogger post from stdin for googlecl

July 3rd, 2010 § 0 comments § permalink

Going to start hijacking this blog, to record/link to patches I submit to various open-source projects. As with everything else on here, it’s mainly to ensure I can find these little snippets a few months later.

So, to start, something intended for this blog itself. A patch to the google commandline tools enabling the “google blogger post” command to post content read from stdin (adding to the current options of supplying a string or a filename). Usage is the traditional ‘-‘ in place of a filename.

This enables two pieces of functionality I’d find very useful:
A) filter content through other programs. e.g. using markdown to HTMLify my content:
$ markdown post.txt | google blogger post –
B) make a blogpost from within vim, by selecting my post content and piping it to googlecl

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