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[andrewducker]

I'm sure I've missed a load of options out. Anyone want to educate me?
[Poll #1224275]

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[cybik.livejournal.com]

I like the update page.. And it saves drafts automatically now, which can be useful if my laptop dies on me.

[drjon.livejournal.com]

I still use the old LJ for Windows client. Semagic is too bloatwarish... although I'd love to hack in tag support, multi-encoding and user-defined hot-keys (to patch up the spotty html code support).

Sometimes kinda wish I could get my hands on the source, and brush up on my coding. But who has time?

[andrewducker]

Wow. Semagic loads instantly for me, and I never noticed it sucking up RAM - how bad is it?

[drjon.livejournal.com]

Apologies, I was refering to the bloat of creeping featurism, not the bloat of RAMnomnom.

(fires it up to have another look)

I find the interface poorly designed, counterintuitive, crowded and confusing. No doubt it would grow more familiar if I used it, but frankly I find it annoying. I hope my comments don't cause offense (I see in the poll answers now you use it.. sorry).

(I also use Notepad in preference to Word, btw.)

[andrewducker]

I'm not offended - nor am I likely to get into a vi/emacs argument :->

It's not perfect, and I'm sure there are things that I don't need in it. I was merely curious to get other people's opinions.

[drjon.livejournal.com]

Mmmm... vi...

I have a vi implementation for windows around here somewhere...

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I find the Semagic interface just fine, once I turn off the things I don't use. If I want to change permissions or swap icons on a post, I open that panel, make the change, and close the panel again. This keeps it clean and simple, for me.

(Notepad, I use over Word for most things, but I find that programs like EditPlus are simply better plain text editors. That doesn't stop me from using notepad for super-simple things, of course, but it's never my choice for anything more than a "need to take notes right here, right now" typing.)

[andrewducker]

I tend to use metapad for my notepad replacement. I'm sure it's not the best, but it's better than notepad - and free!

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

There we go!

I like Editplus because it translates seamlessly from a notepad-like text editor into a context-highlighting code-editing development environment, depending on what I open and how I work things. It gives me all the power I need for big stuff, and yet doesn't slow me down for small stuff.

And it's possible there's a free tool that does the same things, but I know, like, and have paid for this one.

[andrewducker]

Yeah - if I edited code at home (well, outside of Visual Studio) I'd probably want something like that. I don't object to paying for tools I find useful.

[matgb]

I've also never got on with Semagic, I just don't see the appeal. I like Deepest Sender lots, especially as it has Wordpress support as well, but since I programmed a huge pile of insets for LJ addons I've gone back to the update page as well.

So the correct answer to Andrew's poll is, for the posts I myself write, about 50/50 update/DS, but then there are auto posts from delicious and twitter that sometimes appear and have at times been the main content. Neither of which is an option above...

[andrewducker]

What are 'insets'?

I like semagic for the keyboard shortcuts. Being able to copy a link to the clipboard, select some text, and hitting ctrl-alt-l to turn it into a link, or selecting matgb and typing ctrl-alt-u to convert it into a username link, etc.

Does Deepest Sender do that?

[matgb]

We think inset is a bad russian translation of insert, basically highlight and do something—I have a little blue bar at the top of my screen, if there's a cursor in a text area and I move the mouse to the top it'll pop down with all my insets, or I can right click 'em.

Because they're easily fully programmable, you can do things like footnote references as well as basic stuff like insert link, etc. But that's for addons, not DS.

DS will do username inserts, but for links I either right click/send to DS after highlighting, so it gives me a link preformatted with the page title and the text in a blockquote, or I use Copy as HTML link saving a process anyway—I keep meaning to write up all my favourite blogging plugins in one post, but, well, I haven't posted for a week...

[andrewducker]

How does one do these "inserts"?

[matgb]

If you've got it installed, highlight/right click to see the menu, or highlight then move your mouse to the top of the browser window below the tab bar, there's a little blue bar.

To edit them, right click on the stuff in the statusbar, settings, then you want the little cross, the rest is self explanatory, I completely reprogrammed all of mine (hence the number of footnotes and stuff I put in posts, all done by insets)

[andrewducker]

I don't have any Deepest Sender stuff in the status bar. Nor is there a "settings" option anywhere in it. I'm lost!

[matgb]

Ah—insets are for ljaddons, not Deepest Sender—the flexibility and ability to make new insets for addons is what's brought me back to using the web window—it can be set to be usable on any website textarea as well, so I've got BBcode and stuff in there too...

[accordingly.livejournal.com]

I always used the update page but I got Semagic fairly recently. I am always kind of late to the party.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

[x] XJournal
[x] Logjam (Before the Mac)

[andrewducker]

I didn't include Mac clients because I had no idea what ones were good/popular. I was hoping people would illuminate me :->

[hirez.livejournal.com]

In which case...

Yes, Semagic's a dog's breakfast. All of the bells & whistles take up far too much screen. While you can hide that part of the dialog with F5, it's a bit rubbish. On the other hand it mostly works.

Logjam's nicer in that regard, although being a GTK+ app, it does pull in half of Gnome if you want to run it on a KDE box.

There is no LJ client for KDE[1]. Or rather, one that speaks Blogger ought to work. I wrote my own in the end because I wanted all the LJ-specific bits to work.

XJournal works well enough. Vague compromise between Logjam and Semagic, in that it could take up a lot less screen-space if one could replace the icons with text.

(But then I prefer my text-mangling apps to be very little else than the text-input widget itself.)


[1] The last time I looked.

[matgb]

KDE is a Linux distro? Assuming you use Fx as a browser, Deepest Sender is a plugin for Fx that works fairly well—I use it for about 1/2 the posts I write, I use the update page for the other half, as ljaddons doesn't work within the DS window and I've carved a pile of insets for myself.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

:p

s/box/rig/

You'd think that mind, given the fun I had getting some non-packaged apps to run under FreeBSD. Still, the meta-port for 3.x was Good Enough. I know not the state of 4.x, though.

[nwhyte]

I do my book reviews by email from my Blackberry, so that I can write them while commuting (which is also when I do most of my reading).

I use Semagic for long posts which I'm afraid of losing from the update page.

[andrewducker]

You post by email? Or just copy/paste into the browser window?

[nwhyte]

I post by email. (Book reviews anyway.)

[ekatarina.livejournal.com]

If I am composing something long, say more than a page of screen, I will use my wordprcessor (LotusWordPro) and then copy paste.

Otherwise, the update button works for me.

Ekatarina

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

Though it's not my primary method, I post by email fairly often.

[terminalmalaise.livejournal.com]

Drivel, a Linux client designed for Gnome.

[erindubitably.livejournal.com]

From home: Semagic
From work: update page

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

Now that's what I call a meta post.

How about, y know, LIFE!!!!

[andrewducker]

Too busy having one to talk about it on LJ.

[cosmolinguist]

I miss Semagic. I use Logjam now.

[mirukux.livejournal.com]

from my wordpress install using the ljxp plugin