You don't have to wait for the entire update process to finish before you can preview your work. Use the draftand make-pageactions to create an intermediate preview of your work.

1. Create the new entry or article with draft.

   nb draft preview.txt
   
   

2. Create the preview with make-page.

   nb make-page preview.txt preview.html
   
   

3. When you're satisfied with the preview, initiate the update sequence.

   for an entry:

   nb file preview.txt add entry
   
   

   for an article (from the articlesdirectory):

   nb query main update
   
   

Did you know that NanoBlogger can multitask?

1. Apply changes immediately after changing configuration.

   nb configure query all update
   
   

2. Edit a new article and have it generated immediately.

   nb draft [blog_dir]articles/example.txt query main update
   
   

3. Publish changes immediately after an edit or delete action.

   nb edit entry n publish
   nb delete entry n publish
   
   

4. Combining preview and publish (when "add" is not invoked).

   nb edit entry n preview publish
   nb draft [blog_dir]articles/example.txt query main update preview publish
   
   

Some notes:

• As of this writing, both "preview" and "publish" are already ran automatically whenever the "add" action is invoked.
• You can use the "--interactive 0" option to prevent NanoBlogger from stopping and asking a lot of questions.

My favorite editor is a clone of vi, called vim. Spell checking in vim is made possible with the use of aspell.

Just follow these three simple vim commands:

:w!
:!aspell -c %
:w %