<p>Another metablogging post, but this may come in handy for people who like to produce blog posts in bulk and schedule them for publication in WordPress at a later date.</p>
<p>I’ve recently blogged about <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2015/08/01/adding-tls-support-to-emacs-24-5-on-windows/">adding TLS support to Emacs 24.5 on Windows</a> and <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2015/08/04/improve-git-performance-on-windows-without-patching-your-git-install/">improving git performance on Windows by installing an alternative git command line client</a>. The reason I ended up investigating how to add SSL and TLS support to Emacs is that when…
<p>The Windows build of Emacs 24.5 doesn’t ship with SSL and TLS support out of the box. Normally that’s not that much of a problem until you are trying to access marmalade-repo or have <a href="https://github.com/punchagan/org2blog">org2blog</a> talk to your own blog via SSL/TLS.</p>
<p>As mentioned in <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2015/03/02/improving-my-blogging-workflow-using-emacs-of-course/">an earlier post</a>, I changed my blogging workflow to org2blog for writing and editing posts in Emacs and only push them up to my WordPress blog when the posts are almost done. I still do the final editing in WordPress so I can tweak the SEO settings and all that, but the majority of the work happens in <a href="http://orgmode.org/">org-mode</a> now.</p>
<p>GNU Emacs 24.5 was <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/#Obtaining">released</a> on April 10th. I’m in the process of setting up a dual boot Windows/Linux machine right now as I’m slowly moving away from Mac OS X, mainly because of the cost of the hardware but also because I don’t like it that much as a Unix-y development environment anymore.</p>
<p>As I mentioned in <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2015/03/02/improving-my-blogging-workflow-using-emacs-of-course/">yesterday’s post</a>, I’m trying to improve my blogging workflow by using org2blog to draft my posts before pushing them to my WordPress blog. When I posted yesterday I had the basic workflow going, could edit posts in Emacs, save them, update drafts and push them to WordPress. The last piece that was missing was getting spell checking to work.</p>
<p>I try not to post too many metablogging posts. Other people do it better and I’m trying to focus on journalling what I learn as a software engineer and manager, not what tools I use for blogging. However after losing another post to WordPress’s built-in editor I decided Something Must Be Done. I think this is only the second post I lost, but it’s a fairly regular occurrence for a journalist friend of mine and I really don’t have that much time to retype blog entries…
<p>I recently <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2014/11/01/finally-trying-out-a-64-bit-emacs-on-windows/" title="Finally trying out a 64 bit Emacs on Windows">blogged about installing a 64-bit build of Emacs for Windows</a> because I was dealing with a bunch of large and very large files.</p>
<p>Yes, I promise I’ll shut up about Emacs package management via ELPA any minute now.</p>
<p>I’ve blogged about a little elisp snippet I use to install my preferred base set of Emacs packages <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2014/09/06/install-your-basic-emacs-packages-via-a-single-function-call/" title="Install your basic Emacs packages via a single function call">before</a>. Thanks for all the feedback, it definitely helped improve the code.</p>
