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Blogging with org-publish in Emacs

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Nice ! Always great to be hearing about emacs and org-mode !

For those that write (or interested in writing) quite a bit of prose in orgmode / markdown, this emacs theme I just discovered today is mindblowing: https://github.com/kunalb/poet

Finally, don't forget about Flyspell for spell checking but also WriteGood mode which allows you to list weasel words or repetitions and have them underlined by emacs amongst other things.

Hey, I also did this recently: https://www.evenchick.com/blog/blogging-with-org-mode.html

I do something similar for http://pavpanchekha.com/ (I describe the approach here: http://pavpanchekha.com/blog/org-mode-publish.html). I've found it a pretty good blogging platform so far. A huge plus is the diversity of markup (definition lists, tables, footnotes, info boxes, and so on) that are directly supported, plus the ease of directly embedding raw HTML (for things like diagrams and charts).

But one challenge I've struggled with is how to generate full-content RSS quickly. I like that my blog's RSS includes the full blog post (since that's how I like reading posts) but Emacs wants to recompile every post every time I update the site—that takes minutes.

I've thought about this, too. I think the real problem is that your content should stand alone, and a program should come along to enhance it. Think of it like putting emacs in the browser to convert your org files. Or [gopher].

[gopher]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)

My biggest impediment in adopting org for publishing, and knowledge management is the lack of really good UX on iOS. Does anyone know of other good editors/apps on IOS that support the org markup? (I’m ok with managing the publishing itself on my dev machine)

"good" is hard since org is text-centric and all mobiles have no keyboard except of virtual crap... However Beorg seems to be an option, personally I use Android with Orgzly and I suppose they are substantially the same, not-so-comfortable to use but enough to sync note&TODO...

A little off-topic: Is there a way to stream ORG mode text directly from emacs to emacs, eliminating the browser part?

Edit: Another way of saying this is blogging and blog-consumption directly on Emacs. I think it could be possible.

No, but it'd be easy. You need

1. a request to return org-mode data (or for requests to contain it in a mechanically distinguishable manner, an option if your normal output is org-mode plus some JavaScript that renders the page from org-mode)

2. some Emacs code to populate a buffer with org-mode data extracted from an HTTP request

That's it. Neither of those are technically difficult. Although there's lots of room for improvement, and that's where people might start to get interested. For example, you could develop org-mode as an alternative to Jupyter notebooks.

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