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META: Lost another one

Tonight's blog entry is gone, courtesy of Firefox and Drupal. Drupal's preview mode doesn't save a copy of the message you're editing around when you leave the page. Firefox wouldn't let me back up in the history for the page I had visited by mistake.

I think it's time to quit blogging in this environment. I need to either get Firefox to put up a text editor for form text dialogs, or just edit offline and paste.

BTW, gterm seems to have a bad bug that causes its "paste" menu option to try to copy from PRIMARY rather than CLIPBOARD. X cut-and-paste suxxors.

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Scribe

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I tried to try it

Sadly, it appears they don't have it for Firefox 1.5 yet. Darn it. I'll keep an eye open for it though—thanks for the suggestion!

  • By Bart at 2006-02-27 01:57
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gterm?

BTW, what is "gterm"?

  • By josh at 2006-02-25 02:40
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GNOME Terminal

GNOME Terminal is the only one that does i18n properly AFAIK. I use it for its good UTF-8, which I need for lots of things.

Actually, the bug is hard to reproduce, and may be fixed in the latest version. I don't know.

  • By Bart at 2006-02-25 10:36
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blogapi plugin allows programmatic posting via XML-RPC

Hi Bart,

Drupal's "blogapi" plugin provides an XML-RPC interface to your weblog, which allows you to post via any number of desktop programs. You just need to give those programs the URL http://fob.po8.org/xmlrpc.php, along with your username and password.

gnome-blog provides a minimal drop-down interface from a panel applet, allowing you to add to a blog entry over time and post it when done. drivel provides a more complete interface, including past postings and the ability to save several different draft posts at once. Finally, there's an Emacs interface for weblog posting at http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/emacsweblogs .

  • By josh at 2006-02-25 01:34
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Oh yeah!

I completely forgot about this! Thanks hugely for the reminder.

I'm off to the land of Emacs weblogs. :-)

  • By Bart at 2006-02-25 10:37
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The Land of Emacs Weblogs is not a happy place

See my blog entry.

  • By Bart at 2006-04-02 12:55
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