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In a previous post, I talked about adding syntax-highlighting to this blog. It's working out quite well for me, but I wanted to pull it into my composition workflow better. My current suboptimal workflow is to compose markdown in Emacs and copy/paste into Tumblr's web app. (Tumblesocks is having connection problems that I don't feel like figuring out quite yet.) When I markdown-preview, I want to be able to see my code in all its syntax highlighted glory. Let's look at markdown-preview:

Sometimes I've got my window layout set up just right, and then a command like tex-file stomps all over my hard work. winner-mode helps with one off cases, but tex-file always pops up a new window for the buffer containing the tex compilation. I usually don't care about the compilation, especially since it usually doesn't fail, so let's stop popping up that window:

I recently added jabber.el to my workflow via package-install jabber. Jabber.el seems to be in a really good place in terms of usage and polished development. The only hiccup I had was that it was complaining about starttls issues. That was easy enough to google, and it seemed like I should specify the connection type as starttls. We're apparently using an expired cert or something, so I had to make starttls insecure as well. I got the impression I should be more worried about that, but oh well.

Writing perl and php, I often find myself needing commas or semicolons at the end of a line. After I got tired of doing C-e ; <return> and C-e , <return> all the time I decided I'd make things easier on myself.

Fetchnotes is yet another todo-list/note taking app. I like their service because everything is just plain text, so it's very straightforward from a usage standpoint. I don't have to worry about formatting or saving a url or just part of a page or anything that I'm not concerned about; it's just text! Additionally, they use tags to organize your notes; I have an affinity for tagging/labelling things excessively with the assumption that future me will be able to think of at least one of the tags past me used.