Ecto

So it's a holiday, and what better way to spend it than fiddling with an app on a Mac?

I looked around – once again – for a better blog posting client than ecto. The only contender is blogo. It's very nice, but it lacks some of the power features of ecto like a twitter plugin (I still don't have that working..), the ability to ping a bunch of servers, and, most important, custom HTML tags for doing stuff like posting code. Sure, you can hand-edit the HTML, but that gets very old very quickly.

So back to ecto. Time to pimp it up and get all the gibblies to work together. The UI has always frustrated me. Nothing is where I expect it to be. But at least this version (3.0b55) is reasonably stable.

Now, having got it the way I want it, I need to set it up again on my desktop machine. What a pain! I copied the .plist file from ~/Library/Preferences to the other Mac, but some things are still not there, like the list of servers to ping. With a little digging and some help from sudo fs_usage -filesys |fgrep -i ecto I see that all that stuff lives in ~Library/Application Support/ecto3/accounts.plist Bingo!

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