Re: e-blog.el help please

[ken]

e-blog didn't work for me either.  I posted about it months ago, never
got a reply, so just gave up on it.

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On 08/27/2009 05:58 AM rpd wrote:
> Hi
> I want to use e-blog.el to help post to my google blogger blogspot but it
> doesn't work
> (curl is installed & works - I am running Vista O/S).
> 
> Here is the error message when I  do M-x e-blog-new-post & after I have put
> in my username & pwd:
> 
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
>   call-process("curl" nil "*e-blog*" nil "--stderr" "/dev/null" "--header"
> nil "http://www.blogger.com/feeds/default/blogs";)
>   (let (feed) (set-buffer e-blog-buffer) (erase-buffer) (message "Requesting
> list of blogs...") (call-process "curl" nil e-blog-buffer nil "--stderr"
> "/dev/null" "--header" e-blog-auth e-blog-fetch-bloglist-url) (setq feed
> (buffer-substring ... ...)) (message "Requesting list of blogs... Done.")
> feed)
>   e-blog-fetch-bloglist()
>   (e-blog-parse-xml (e-blog-fetch-bloglist))
>   (e-blog-setup-choose-buffer (e-blog-parse-xml (e-blog-fetch-bloglist)))
>   e-blog-choose()
>   (if (e-blog-check-authinfo) (e-blog-choose))
>   e-blog-do-auth()
>   (progn (e-blog-do-auth) (e-blog-choose))
>   (if e-blog-auth (e-blog-choose) (progn (e-blog-do-auth) (e-blog-choose)))
>   e-blog-new-post()
>   call-interactively(e-blog-new-post)
>   execute-extended-command(nil)
>   call-interactively(execute-extended-command)
> 
> 
> Can anyone help me fix this please?
> 
> (I saw this on internet search & tried it but it didn't work:
> ;;e-blog.el Blogger with Emacs in Windows 
> ;;http://deepakramani.home.comcast.net/~deepakramani/Blog/2009/07/blogger-with-emacs-in-windows.html
> ;;1.Comment lines that read: "--stderr" "/dev/null" 
> ;;2.Beneath the commented lines add the line "--insecure" 
> ;;This isn't ideal, since the communication is not secure, but it works fine
> for me.
> 
> ;;-Well no-it didn't work for me!so I have switched back! )
> 
> Many thanks