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Emacs & weblogger.el

Marianne — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:40:05 +0000

Weblogger.el offers a nice way to post directly to a WordPress blog from Emacs; here’s a good description how to set it up.

In addition: When creating an entry, you can also set categories by adding a line “Keywords:” to the header, such as:

Keywords: Linux, Emacs, Noobs

I haven’t figured out how to do trackbacks yet, but I do that rarely enough. Even when I have to use the web interface, I can use Emacs via Mozex.

Moving this blog to promberger.info

Marianne — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:18:47 +0000

I have moved this blog to promberger.info. I have redirected promberger.de to promberger.info. This means you are now reading this on the new domain. Please update your bookmarks. Apologies for any inconvenience.

Importing mysql database from the commandline

Marianne — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:47:12 +0000

I’ll be moving this blog to a different host (unfortunately, because it isn’t easy to get German ISPs to change the DNS settings, I will also move it to the domain promberger.info at the same time). I can export the database using phpmyadmin, but on the new server I’ll have to import them from the commandline. These instructions should be all that’s needed.

Backslashes in WordPress

Marianne — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:43:01 +0000

WordPress, the software I use to write this blog, removes backslashes from posts, which is more than annoying for code examples. For me, this solution seems to work:

Turn off the visual editor for all users. Go to Users → Edit user → Your Profile, and untick “Use the visual editor when writing”.
When writing your post, instead of a backslash, type: \

Backing up my blog posts

Marianne — Thu, 31 May 2007 18:21:23 +0000

Did this today with these instructions.