Magus's Grimoire [Abridged]

It turns out there's a bug in jlj, the program I use to compose messages in my favorite editor and submit them to LiveJournal and DreamWidth. I've finally tracked it down and written a quick fix. I feel slightly dirty, but the proper fix requires ripping out the existing band-aid on a band-aid and going back and fixing the underlying problem, which is a bit more effort than I want to go to for someone else's code at this time, as there could well be unexpected consequences.

The problem was that if you had written a post to go to a server other than LiveJournal, and you had it in your queue but it failed to post for some reason, then when you ran jlj -f to flush the queue it would attempt to log in to LiveJournal using the credentials for whatever site you had intended to post to. The symptom looked something like this:

[magus@cabinet ~]$ jlj -f
Logging in to server www.dreamwidth.org
Error Message returned:
Invalid password

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I . . . really don't want to admit how much time I just spent fixing my vim syntax files for jlj and markdown so they work the way I want them to.

All because something about the way they were interacting with one another was making it treat ' as the beginning of a quoted string, so, for instance, everything after the ' in don't until the next ' somewhere would get highlighted bright magenta, making it hard to tell what was going on and interfering with other highlighting.

The time consuming thing, beside tracking down what was causing that, was that I wasn't happy with the way the mkd.vim I picked up off vim.org handled "reference-style" links.

At least it's working in a way I don't hate now. I'll say again, this Markdown thing is pretty cool. Something out there has probably made it completely obsolete by now.

Ah, shoot; I just remembered I'm not happy with the way the markdown syntax handles emphasis and strong. Work to do sometime.