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   1 # Blog Tooling
   2
   3 With so many of the bloggers I follow talking about the the latest release of MarsEdit[1], I've been getting tooling envy. While my blog[2] is a full-featured enterprise-grade state-of-the-art piece of software, it's not compatible with any of these tools :(. Surely, a lack of appropriate tooling is the real reason why I don't update as often.
   4
   5 => https://redsweater.com/marsedit/ [1] MarsEdit
   6 => https://git.sr.ht/~rbdr/blog [2] Blog
   7
   8 After a dozen misguided minutes of reading the atompub spec[3], I decided to integrate my tooling directly to my editor of choice: `nvim`.
   9
  10 => https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc5023/ [3] The atompub spec
  11
  12 Thanks to the marvels of VimScript™ I can now add a text file to my blog with `:Blog add`, update the latest post with `:Blog update`, and publish to staging and live with `:Blog stage` and `:Blog publish`. And all it took was a couple of hours of searching how to write commands in vim[4], learning the difference between `<args>` and `<q-args>`, and a ton of sunken cost bias.
  13
  14 => https://vimhelp.org/usr_40.txt.html#40.2 [4] How to write commands in vim
  15
  16 Here you can see the code in its entirety (with a couple replacements):
  17
  18
  19 ```
  20 command -nargs=? Blog :call Blog(<q-args>)
  21
  22 function! Blog(...)
  23
  24   let command = get(a:, 1, 0)
  25   let path = expand("%:p")
  26
  27   if command == "add"
  28     if path == ""
  29       echo "This buffer is not a text file"
  30     else
  31       echo "Adding ".path." to blog"
  32       call system("blog --add ".path)
  33     endif
  34     return
  35   endif
  36
  37   if command == "update"
  38     if path == ""
  39       echo "This buffer is not a text file"
  40     else
  41       echo "Updating ".path." to blog"
  42       call system("blog --update ".path)
  43     endif
  44     return
  45   endif
  46
  47   if command == "stage"
  48     echo "Publishing blog to staging"
  49     call system("blog --publish <staging_url>")
  50     return
  51   endif
  52
  53   if command == "publish"
  54     echo "Publishing blog"
  55     call system("blog --publish <blog_url>")
  56     call system("blog --publish-archive <gemini_url>")
  57     return
  58   endif
  59
  60   if command == "help"
  61     echo "Available commands:"
  62     echo "\tadd\t\tadds current file to blog"
  63     echo "\tupdate\t\tupdates latest entry of blog with current file"
  64     echo "\tstage\t\tpublish blog to staging"
  65     echo "\tpublish\t\tpublish blog to production"
  66     echo "\thelp\t\tthis message"
  67     return
  68   endif
  69
  70   echo "Unknown command, run :Blog help for help"
  71
  72 endfunction
  73 ```
  74
  75 Surely, this is all I need to form a publishing habit.
  76
  77 Written, published, edited, republished, debugged, and republished with nvim.