Automatic hyperlinking to wikipedia and others using ecto scripting
Ecto is a feature-rich desktop blogging client for Mac OS X and Windows, supporting a wide range of weblog systems, such as Drupal. It allows me to plug-in my own scripts writing in programming languages such as ruby, perl, Bash and i suppose python also.
This feature allows for some nifty stuff such as filtering the blog contents.
Lets link to a google search for our favorite blogging client now
The above text was hyperlinked using the script “inter” (source) based on how the interwiki module of drupal works. The input text was as follows:
[[w:ecto|Ecto]] is a feature-rich desktop blogging client for [[w:Mac OS X]] and Windows, supporting a wide range of weblog systems, such as [[http:drupal.org|Drupal]]. It allows me to plug-in my own scripts writing in [[w:programming languages]] such as [[w:ruby]], [[w:perl]], [[w:bash|Bash]] and i suppose [[w:python]] also.
This feature allows for some [[dict:nifty]] stuff such as filtering the blog contents.
[[w:ecto|Ecto]] inserts a hyperlink to wikipedia with ecto as the parameter, and Ecto as the display text of the hyperlink. On the other hand, [[w:ecto]] would use “ecto” both as parameter and display text.
Other current options are:
g: for google search
dict: for a m-w.com dictionary search
th: thesaurus.reference.com
http: a link
One can add more to the ruby script which does this replacement.
I shall try to post the ruby script in the next post. But cannot guarantee since blogsome is messing up code.
