Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005
MarsEdit … Tried the Demo Once and I’m Already Loving It
I decided to give MarsEdit from ranchero software a try and it was very enjoyable. It took all of 5 minutes to get it working great with my Blosxom weblog software. You simply point it towards the folder your weblog files are stored in and it configures the rest very nicely. I like how it lets you compose drafts before publishing them to your blog … just like composing an email before sending it.
The only reason it took 5 minutes instead of 2 is that I wanted the preview mode to use Markdown. As suggested here, the MarsEdit developers already made this very easy to change the default mode to Markdown. Simply setup a default by typing the following into a Terminal window (it should all go on one line).
defaults write com.ranchero.MarsEdit
previewWithMarkdownAlways YES
