Manage Jekyll From Emacs

January 2, 2009

I recently switched this blog over to Jekyll. Jekyll is a static blog generator that can be used to manage a blog from source control instead of from a silly Web app. In my case, this blog lives in Git and whenever I push new commits it regenerates the site.

Today I spent a little time automating some common actions in Emacs for working with Jekyll blogs. You can find jekyll.el in my Jekyll branch on GitHub.

Here’s what it does:

• C-c b n - Create a new draft post.
• C-c b P - Publish a draft.
• C-c b d - List all drafts.
• C-c b p - List all posts.

I’m quite happy with it, and it has been fun exploring Emacs Lisp.