From TextMate to ExpressionEngine
Between writing code, documentation, and blog posts, I spend a lot of my time working in TextMate. It's an efficient text editor, but it becomes a bit of a headache when it's time to work on a new blog post. The real problem is my process:
- Open TextMate and start collecting my thoughts for a post in some cohesive fashion (optional)
- Finalize most of the content and basic formatting
- Copy the content into ExpressionEngine, tweak the formatting, add hyperlinks
- Preview the post and publish to the site
The reason for all this masochism is my dislike for editing content in a web-based form, WYSIWYG or otherwise. I love my editor enough that I'm willing to jump through some hoops in order to use it for the bulk of my editing work. But, there's a better way to do all this.