Description

Jekyll is a blog-aware, static site generator in Ruby. The management of Jekyll's site by creating and editing files in the local working directory looks pretty easy, unless the access to a certain source file is required. The use of Emacs and org-protocol-jekyll solves this issue for me. org-protocol-jekyll relies on org-protocol which scans the list of filenames passed to the Emacs server for org-protocol:/sub-protocol:/ and triggers actions associated with sub-protocol. org-protocol-jekyll realizes the jekyll sub-protocol to open sources of a site built with Jekyll for editing. org-protocol-jekyll has been successfully tested with Jekyll 1+.

Usage

Create a bookmark in browser with the following "Location":

javascript:location.href='org-protocol://jekyll?url='+
  encodeURIComponent(location.href)

You need Emacs to run in daemon mode or start a server: M-x server-start. Then point out Emacsclient as the application to open org-protocol links with. In Linux, create emacsclient.desktop in directory /usr/share/applications/ (for all users) or ~/.local/share/applications/ (for the current user), and put this stuff there:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Emacs Client
Exec=emacsclient %u
Icon=emacs
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Categories=System;
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/org-protocol;

Add the following line in the Emacs initialization file:

(require 'org-protocol-jekyll)

Customizable variable org-protocol-jekyll-alist contains the list of Jekyll's sites, for instance,

(setq org-protocol-jekyll-alist
      '(("Jekyll's awesome website."
         :base-url "http://jekyllrb.com"
         :permalink "pretty"
         :working-directory "/home/user/jekyll"
         :working-suffix (".md", ".markdown"))
        ("Local Jekyll's site."
         :base-url "http://localhost:4000"
         :permalink "pretty"
         :working-directory "/home/user/jekyll"
         :working-suffix (".md", ".markdown"))))

where

• :base-url is the base URL of the Jekyll's site (e.g. http://www.example.com/project). If Jekyll runs with option --baseurl, add its value to the end of :base-url.
• :permalink is the permalink to generate URLs for the site.
• :working-directory is the local working directory of the site. If Jekyll uses a source subdirectory (option --source), don't forget to add its value to the end of :working-directory.
• :working-suffix is the acceptable suffixes for the file converted to HTML by Jekyll. :working-suffix is a list of suffixes, e.g. (".md", ".markdown"), or one suffix, e.g. ".org". No need to add ".html" suffix, because it is already included.

Now visit any page of Jekyll's site and click the bookmark created for org-protocol-jekyll. See in Emacs the corresponding source file ready for editing!

Installation

ELPA affords the easy way to install org-protocol-jekyll for Emacs from MELPA or Marmalade Package Archive.