A while back on my tumblrblog I posted a link to a tutorial that shows how to use Textmate to create blog entries. Textmate has completely eradicated any need for BBEdit in my life and has eclipsed Coda for the time being because of PHP syntax completion, but I digress. When I first tried this, I was using WordPress and wasn’t able to get this to work properly, but now that I’ve switched to MT4, I thought it was time to try this once more. I discovered a few things in the process:
- MT has two passwords; the user password and the webservices (API) password; and
- For whatever reason, I had to log in with MarsEdit and use it to fetch posts before Textmate would do it successfully.
Here’s how the post window looks in Textmate:
At any rate, I’m not convinced that posting this way will make creating posts easier or somehow improve my workflow (especially since I spend the majority of my time in browser windows), but for the time being it’s a neat trick and worth trying out if you’re in the market for a powerful text editor that can also be used for blogging.
Edit: I’ve since moved back to Wordpress, but have noticed that while support for Textmate blogging has improved, there are still some lingering issues with how it pulls content into a Wordpress blog. I’ll be looking for solutions and will post back when I find one.
