Document new blosxom convenience feature.
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1 ;;; muse-blosxom.el --- Publish a document tree for serving by (py)Blosxom
3 ;; Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Date: Wed, 23 March 2005
6 ;; Author: Michael Olson (mwolson AT gnu DOT org)
7 ;; Maintainer: Michael Olson (mwolson AT gnu DOT org)
9 ;; This file is not part of GNU Emacs.
11 ;; This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
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24 ;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
26 ;;; Commentary:
28 ;; The Blosxom publishing style publishes a tree of categorised files
29 ;; to a mirrored tree of stories to be served by blosxom.cgi or
30 ;; pyblosxom.cgi.
32 ;; Serving entries with (py)blosxom
33 ;; --------------------------------
35 ;; Each Blosxom file must include `#date yyyy-mm-dd', or optionally
36 ;; the longer `#date yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm', a title (using the `#title'
37 ;; directive) plus whatever normal content is desired.
39 ;; The date directive is not used directly by (py)blosxom or this
40 ;; program. You need to find two additional items to make use of this
41 ;; feature.
43 ;; 1. A script to gather date directives from the entire blog tree
44 ;; into a single file. The file must associate a blog entry with
45 ;; a date.
47 ;; 2. A plugin for (py)blosxom that reads this file.
49 ;; These 2 things are provided for pyblosxom in the contrib/pyblosxom
50 ;; subdirectory. `getstamps.py' provides the 1st service, while
51 ;; `hardcodedates.py' provides the second service. Eventually it is
52 ;; hoped that a blosxom plugin and script will be found/written.
54 ;; Generating a project description
55 ;; --------------------------------
57 ;; Muse-blosxom has some helper functions to make specifying
58 ;; muse-blosxom projects a lot easier. An example follows.
60 ;; (setq muse-project-alist
61 ;; `(("blog"
62 ;; (,@(muse-blosxom-project-alist-dirs "~/path/to/blog-entries")
63 ;; :default "index")
64 ;; ,@(muse-blosxom-project-alist-entry "~/path/to/blog-entries"
65 ;; "~/public_html/blog"
66 ;; "blosxom-xhtml")
67 ;; )))
69 ;; Note that we need a backtick instead of a single quote on the
70 ;; second line of this example.
72 ;; Creating new blog entries
73 ;; -------------------------
75 ;; There is a function called `muse-blosxom-new-entry' that will
76 ;; automate the process of making a new blog entry. To make use of
77 ;; it, do the following.
79 ;; - Customize `muse-blosxom-base-directory' to the location that
80 ;; your blog entries are stored.
82 ;; - Assign the `muse-blosxom-new-entry' function to a key sequence.
83 ;; I use the following code to assign this function to `C-c p l'.
85 ;; (global-set-key "\C-cpl" 'muse-blosxom-new-entry)
87 ;; - You should create your directory structure ahead of time under
88 ;; your base directory. These directories, which correspond with
89 ;; category names, may be nested.
91 ;; - When you enter this key sequence, you will be prompted for the
92 ;; category of your entry and its title. Upon entering this
93 ;; information, a new file will be created that corresponds with
94 ;; the title, but in lowercase letters and having special
95 ;; characters converted to underscores. The title and date
96 ;; directives will be inserted automatically.
98 ;;; Contributors:
100 ;; Gary Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org) is the original author of
101 ;; `emacs-wiki-blosxom.el', which is the ancestor of this file.
103 ;; Brad Collins (brad AT chenla DOT org) ported this file to Muse.
105 ;; Michael Olson (mwolson AT gnu DOT org) further adapted this file to
106 ;; Muse and continues to maintain it.
108 ;;; Code:
110 ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
112 ;; Muse Blosxom Publishing
114 ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
116 (require 'muse-project)
117 (require 'muse-publish)
118 (require 'muse-html)
120 (defgroup muse-blosxom nil
121 "Options controlling the behavior of Muse Blosxom publishing.
122 See `muse-blosxom' for more information."
123 :group 'muse-publish)
125 (defcustom muse-blosxom-extension ".txt"
126 "Default file extension for publishing Blosxom files."
127 :type 'string
128 :group 'muse-blosxom)
130 (defcustom muse-blosxom-header
131 "<lisp>(muse-publishing-directive \"title\")</lisp>\n"
132 "Header used for publishing Blosxom files."
133 :type '(choice string file)
134 :group 'muse-blosxom)
136 (defcustom muse-blosxom-footer ""
137 "Footer used for publishing Blosxom files."
138 :type '(choice string file)
139 :group 'muse-blosxom)
141 ;; Maintain (published-file . date) alist
143 (defvar muse-blosxom-page-date-alist nil)
145 ;; This isn't really used for anything, but it may be someday
146 (defun muse-blosxom-markup-date-directive ()
147 "Add a date entry to `muse-blosxom-page-date-alist' for this page."
148 (let ((date (match-string 1)))
149 (save-match-data
150 (add-to-list
151 'muse-blosxom-page-date-alist
152 `(,muse-publishing-current-file . ,date))))
155 ;; Enter a new blog entry
157 (defcustom muse-blosxom-base-directory "~/Blog"
158 "Base directory of blog entries, used by `muse-blosxom-new-entry'.
159 This is the top-level directory where your blog entries may be found
160 locally."
161 :type 'directory
162 :group 'muse-blosxom)
164 (defun muse-blosxom-get-categories (&optional base)
165 "Retrieve all of the categories from a Blosxom project.
166 The base directory is specified by BASE, and defaults to
167 `muse-blosxom-base-directory'.
169 Directories starting with \".\" will be ignored."
170 (unless base (setq base muse-blosxom-base-directory))
171 (let (list dir)
172 (dolist (file (directory-files base t "^[^.]"))
173 (when (file-directory-p file) ; must be a directory
174 (setq dir (file-name-nondirectory file))
175 (push dir list)
176 (nconc list (mapcar #'(lambda (item)
177 (concat dir "/" item))
178 (muse-blosxom-get-categories file)))))
179 list))
181 (defun muse-blosxom-title-to-file (title)
182 "Derive a file name from the given TITLE.
184 Feel free to overwrite this if you have a different concept of what
185 should be allowed in a filename."
186 (muse-replace-regexp-in-string (concat "[^-." muse-regexp-alnum "]")
187 "_" (downcase title)))
189 (defun muse-blosxom-new-entry (category title)
190 "Start a new blog entry with given CATEGORY.
191 The filename of the blog entry is derived from TITLE.
192 The page will be initialized with the current date and TITLE."
193 (interactive
194 (list
195 (completing-read "Category: " (muse-blosxom-get-categories))
196 (read-string "Title: ")))
197 (let ((file (muse-blosxom-title-to-file title)))
198 (muse-project-find-file
199 file "blosxom" nil
200 (concat (directory-file-name muse-blosxom-base-directory)
201 "/" category)))
202 (goto-char (point-min))
203 (insert "#date " (format-time-string "%4Y-%2m-%2d-%2H-%2M")
204 "\n#title " title
205 "\n\n")
206 (forward-line 2))
208 ;; Make it easier to specify the muse-project-alist entry
210 (defun muse-blosxom-project-alist-entry (entry-dir output-dir style)
211 "Return a list of styles to use when publishing a muse-blosxom project.
212 ENTRY-DIR is where your Muse blog entries are kept.
213 OUTPUT-DIR is where these entries are published.
214 STYLE is the publishing style to use.
216 For an example of the use of this function, see
217 `examples/mwolson/muse-init.el' from the Muse distribution."
218 (cons `(:base ,style :path ,(expand-file-name output-dir)
219 :include ,(concat "/" (file-name-nondirectory entry-dir)
220 "/[^/]+$"))
221 (mapcar (lambda (dir);
222 `(:base ,style
223 :path ,(expand-file-name dir output-dir)
224 :include ,(concat "/" dir "/")))
225 (muse-blosxom-get-categories entry-dir))))
227 (defun muse-blosxom-project-alist-dirs (entry-dir)
228 "Return a list of directories to use when publishing a muse-blosxom project.
229 ENTRY-DIR is where your Muse blog entries are kept.
231 For an example of the use of this function, see
232 `examples/mwolson/muse-init.el' from the Muse distribution."
233 (cons (expand-file-name entry-dir)
234 (mapcar (lambda (dir) (expand-file-name dir entry-dir))
235 (muse-blosxom-get-categories entry-dir))))
237 ;; Register the Blosxom Publisher
239 (unless (assoc "blosxom-html" muse-publishing-styles)
240 (muse-derive-style "blosxom-html" "html"
241 :suffix 'muse-blosxom-extension
242 :header 'muse-blosxom-header
243 :footer 'muse-blosxom-footer)
245 (muse-derive-style "blosxom-xhtml" "xhtml"
246 :suffix 'muse-blosxom-extension
247 :header 'muse-blosxom-header
248 :footer 'muse-blosxom-footer))
250 (provide 'muse-blosxom)
252 ;;; muse-blosxom.el ends here