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- Omar Polo <op at omarpolo.com>
@ Tue, 20 Apr 2021 18:27 +0200
Reply to Unicorn <unicorn at disroot.org>
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Unicorn <unicorn@disroot.org> writes:
Hello,
my partner wants to write a site with me. She likes the idea of Gemini
and the simplicity of its syntax, but is not the kind of person to run
cli applications like vim and rsync all the time. Which is how I have
been doing it. She told me she would prefer to use something like the
Nextcloud inbuilt text editor, though that one uses Markdown
unfortunately and seems too complex for me to just modify it to work
with gemtext right now.
So I was wondering, did any of you have similar challenges? What
solution did you ultimately go with? There are a few pieces to this
puzzle, so I will just list them individually:
* Easy writing of the text itself with Linux or web-based GUI (syntax
highlighting is a big plus, fancy rendering of headers or lists etc
is not necessary because it's already so simple)
* The text should be structured in directories in the exact same way
that the site ultimately will be
* The whole structure of files should be accessible to both of us,
either with some server-based solution or with eg. Syncthing keeping
the state of our computers in sync
* The whole structure of files needs to be regularly uploaded to the
server that is hosting our site
I would be thankful for any suggestions! I believe finding a practical
solution for this type of user would be important for more people to
access gemini as writers. So even if you want to suggest a community
effort for modifying an existing tool or creating a new one, I am open
to working on it and hearing your ideas :)
Best,
Unicorn
I never did something like this (I usually just use git or rsync to
publish) but maybe syncthing[0] is an option too. If you don't know it,
it like dropbox, you can share directories across various devices, it's
decentralized, free and available for (almost?) all operating systems.
It can sync the files between your and her laptop, and if you don't want
to insta-publish the changes to your server, you can turn off syncthing
on your server and turn it on only when you're ready to publish. For
editing you can use whatever text-editor you like.
Nextcloud could be an option too, but it seems to require more effort.
IIRC you can edit also plain text files with the built-in editor, but
it won't do syntax highlighting and you have to find a solution for the
publishing part.
Cheers,
Omar Polo
[0]: https://syncthing.net/
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