Filed under: tips-and-tricks | NanoBlogger

Save Time, Create Intermediate Previews

n1xt3r — 2008-01-12T15:27:18-04:00

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

Create the new entry or article with draft.
```
nb draft preview.txt
```
Create the preview with make-page.
```
nb make-page preview.txt preview.html
```
When you're satisfied with the preview, initiate the update sequence.

for an entry:
```
nb file preview.txt add
```
for an article (from the articles directory):
```
nb query main update
```

Mutlitask

n1xt3r — 2008-01-12T14:54:37-04:00

Last Updated: June 20th, 2009

NOTE: Updated commands to syntax of version 3.4.

Did you know that NanoBlogger can multitask?

Well, technically, it's more like batch processing. Anyways, here's a list of common actions that can be combined.

Apply changes immediately after changing configuration.
```
nb configure update all
```

Edit a new article and have it generated immediately.

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

Publish changes immediately after an edit or delete action.
```
nb edit entry 1 publish
nb delete entry 1 publish
```

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

nb edit entry 1 preview publish
nb draft [blog_dir]articles/example.txt update main 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 '--no-preview' and '--no-publish' to prevent this.
You can use the "--interactive 0" option to have NanoBlogger assume the default choice for most actions.

Spell Checking with aspell from vim

n1xt3r — 2004-12-08T22:01:32-04:00

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 %