* DONE 💻 Emacs integrations for efficient blogging :blog_sl:emacs:lazyblorg:lb_persistent:
CLOSED: [2024-03-02 Sat 01:20]
:PROPERTIES:
:ID:        emacs-blogging
:CREATED:  [2024-03-02 Sat 01:20]
:END:
:LOGBOOK:
- State "DONE"       from              [2024-03-02 Sat 01:20]
:END:

Here I will try to describe a few of the customizations I made to simplify and streamline my blogging experience within Emacs. General information of requirements for lazyblorg are well described on the github page [[LbReadme'w][Readme file]]. We start from some org-mode file where you already have a heading and text section for something you want to blog about.

** Emacs helper function and configuration
Let's make the heading =lazyblorg-ready= with a little Emacs function:

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
  ;; lazyblorg blog entry generation
  (defun mvb/lazyblorg-new-entry ()
    "Process the current heading in an Org mode buffer to become a
  blog entry."
    (interactive)
    (org-set-tags-to ":blog_sl:")
    (org-id-get-create)
    (org-entry-put (point) "CREATED" (format-time-string "[%Y-%m-%d %a %H:%M]" (current-time)))
    (org-todo 'done))
#+end_src

Note that because I plan to manage several blogs, I changed the default =:blog:= tag to =:blog_sl:=, where the last two letters are my convention to make the tag blog-specific (here ~_sl~ for ~s~ mp ~l~ inux). I want a shortcut for this so that when the point is on the heading line I can just press it to instantiate the blog metadata.

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
  (general-define-key "C-c B" 'mvb/lazyblorg-new-entry)
#+end_src

Note that I use the ~general~ package ([[GeneralElGit'w][general.el github]]) to manage my key bindings.

Furthermore it is required that a logbook entry is created for the ~DONE~ status, which is not necessarily the default. Check the ~org-todo-keywords~ variable. The sequence specific to ~DONE~ needs to contain the exclamation mark as shown below in ~"DONE(d!)"~.

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
    (setq org-todo-keywords
          '((sequence "TODO(t)" "NEXT(n)" "|" "DONE(d!)")
    :
#+end_src