*vimblogger_ft.txt* reStructuredText to Blogger Interface Author: Roman Dobosz, gryf73 at gmail com Simple interface to create blog articles in rsST format. It provides commands for preview in browser, post and delete articles. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Requirements~ Module for communication was written in Python. So, VIm has to be compiled with +python. Other requirements: - Python (tested with version 2.6, should work also in others) - gdata http://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client - docutils http://docutils.sourceforge.net - pygments http://pygments.org (optional) - Blogger account ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Install~ Edit the vba file and type: > :so % ======================================================================== Usage~ This plugin is targeting for people, who has blogger account, want to use VIm for creating blog articles and don't really likes to manually do this in html. Before starting writing a post, at least |g:blogger_name| and |g:blogger_login| has to be set up in |.vimrc|. Next, an article has to be written using standard reST markup, |:Title:| added (not required, but it's nice to have some title for a blog entry). Now, |:PreviewBlogArticle| can be used for saving generated HTML page into the file of the same name as reST file. Please note, that it'll silently overwrite existing file, because it is treated as a temporary file. When article is done, |:SendBlogArticle| will send it to the server. Output provided by |:PreviewBlogArticle| without any css stylesheet will look pretty raw, so it is generally good idea to grab stylesheets from blog itself, and tweak it a little, and add to list in |g:blogger_stylesheets|. They will be automatically linked to generated preview file. Unfortunately, this script has several limitations, like it is impossible to use multiple blogs or edit existing articles without reST source files. It has to be somehow converted to reStructuredText, id of an article added to |:Id:| docinfo item and then updated. Id of an article is available through blogger account - every action for each post listed on Posting->Edit Posts has URL with query string item postID, for example: > http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=9876&postID=12345 < ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Options~ *g:blogger_browser* g:blogger_browser (default: 0) If set to 1 output file from :PreviewBlogArticle will be opened in browser (used webbrowser Python module) *g:blogger_name* g:blogger_name (default: "") This is blog name, which is part of the URL, and user was obligated to enter it during blog creation. If in doubt, check first part od the URL of the blog, just after 'http://'. Note, that blog name may differ from the blog title, but also could be the same. *g:blogger_login* g:blogger_login (default: "") Google login name, usually gmail address. *g:blogger_pass* g:blogger_pass (default: "") Password. If set to empty string, user will be asked for it every time if any blogger connectivity is performed. *g:blogger_draft* g:blogger_draft (default: 1) By default, don't publish articles immediately, just save it on the service. If set to 0, article will be published. *g:blogger_maxarticles* g:blogger_maxarticles (default: 0) Number of displayed articles during deletion. 0 means all. Any positive number will display only that numbers of articles on list. *g:blogger_confirm_del* g:blogger_confirm_del (default: 1) Confirm every deletion. If set to 0, suppress the confirmation. *g:blogger_stylesheets* g:blogger_stylesheets (default: []) List of relative paths (relative to generated HTML document) of CSS stylesheets, used only for article preview in HTML document. Usually one wanted to save stylesheets from his own blog, so that article can be displayed almost in the same way as in blog. ======================================================================== Commands~ *:PreviewBlogArticle* Generate article in HTML format, save it to the file with te same name as a reST source with .html extension in the same directory, and optionally opens it in browser. No connection to the blogger is performed. *:SendBlogArticle* Generate partial HTML document, which holds article, from current reST buffer and send it to the blog. See reST document structure below for further description. *:DeleteBlogArticle* Display list of articles, and lets user choose one (or none) of them to perform deletions. ======================================================================== reST document structure~ It is assumed, that following template will be used: -----8<----- :Id: :Title: Title for the blog :Date: :Modified: :Tags: some, tags Penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Nulla facilisis massa ut massa. Sed nisi purus, malesuada eu, porta vulputate, suscipit auctor, nunc. Vestibulum convallis, augue eu luctus malesuada, mi ante mattis odio, ac venenatis neque sem vitae nisi. .. more heading ------- **Congue** mi, quis posuere augue nulla a augue. Pellentesque sed est. Mauris cursus urna id lectus. Integer dignissim feugiat eros. Sed tempor volutpat dolor. Vestibulum vel lectus nec mauris semper adipiscing. Aliquam tincidunt enim sit amet tellus. Sed mauris nulla, semper tincidunt, luctus a, sodales eget, leo. Sed ligula augue, cursus et. ----->8----- reST document (optionally) starts with *docinfo* section (first several lines, that are starting from ":" character) separaded from other content with one empty line. Docinfo items holds article attributes, and are updated automatically every each of upload to blogger, which is triggered by ":SendBlogArticle" command. *:Id:* Holds article id on blogger side. If not defined, new article will be created (even if there is already existing one with the very same content). If wrong Id is entered (or an Id of deleted article), exception will be raised, and no action on blogger side will be performed. *:Title:* Holds article title. Can be changed when |:Id:| is obtained. *:Date:* This is published date in RFC 3339 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt format. If empty on first upload, it will be set to current date. Can be set/changed to desired date. *:Modified:* This is read-only item, which store modification date which happens on blogger side. *:Tags:* Comma separated list of tags (Labels). Can be empty. All other items are ignored. After docinfo block, article body should be placed using markup for reStructuredText. Note, that `.. more' will became HTML comment `' which will prevent from displaying entire post on the bloggers front page, but will not have any visible effect during preview in browser. Additionally, if pygments is installed, there is sourcecode directive, simple syntax highlighter using Pygments module. Very simple usage could be as follows: -----8<----- .. sourcecode:: python import vim print vim.current.buffer.name ----->8----- Note: All headings for generated HTML by |:SendBlogArticle| will be shifted by 3, so the first heading will become

, second

and so on, to fit into blogger template (well, most of them). Remember, that HTML allow up to 6 level of headings, while reST doesn't have this limitation. ======================================================================== Changelog~ 0.1 First release vim:tw=72:fo=tcq2:isk=!-~,^*,^|,^":ts=8:ft=help:norl: