Storing a selected Archive of the OpenAllNight OPML Editor weblog, here for now. As of November 23, 2008 the weblog is still hosted as a sub-domain on the OPML.org site.
The new updated OPML Editor site.
The old OPML Editor Support documentation.
March 2007:
Linkies
Is the US headed for a recession? Counting cockroaches
Commenting on Comments
I have read a few of the OPML blog posts about comments. The OPML Editor weblog does not include comment links, but if you want them take a look at a script to add Halo comments to the Editor.
Playing with Browsers
I have been playing with browsers for about a week and a half. In the process I installed and un-installed two versions of Firefox and a version of Opera. The OPML Editor somehow got confused about my ‘default’ browser. Today it was insisting on using IE for NewsRiver and Prefs, even though Opera and then Firefox was in fact my default.
OPML Editor: winDefaultBrowserApp
Dug-out the winDefaultBrowserApp in opml.root and manually changed it back to the Firefox path. Woot!
Is the Radio On?
Earlier this week I posted about OPML Editor Ghost Links, and wondered: “… figuring out what is relevant from the online docs, which pieces of the layers are still included in the OPML Editor, and if/how things may have been modified, updated or deprecated.”
Found in comments on a site far, far away in space and time. Dave Winer said: “… most of the stuff you liked in Radio is in the OPML Editor, which is GPL, and I’m working to get a development community going”.
Crikey! Now go, and then come back.
OPML Editor Ghost Links
While I was playing with the Categories Menu this weekend I happened to assign a category named rss to an entry. That entry also contained the word rss [in double quotes]. When the entry was saved and upstreamed, the quoted rss text became an RSS link on the web page. I assumed at the time this was somewhere in the layers that are the web framework, Radio, Manila, OPML Editor, Dave’ s cortex, or the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Or, Oz maybe. ( * – * )
Turns out that the RSS shortcut is in the global glossary, user.html.glossary [along with a bunch more]. Doh! What do I know, I just keep tripping over this stuff.
If I only had a 
. Typing the word brain with quotes produces this image and audio file. Double click teh brain to listen. It is another one of the global shortcuts.
While googling some other OPML Editor stuffs I came across the follwoing about shortcuts:
So if you posted an item entitled My Summer Vacation, and then referred to it in another post, by name, in double-quotes: “My Summer Vacation” — Radio will automatically generate a link to the item. This way you don’t have to remember complicated URLs to link from one post to another, just enter its title in double-quotes and Radio can do the linking for you.
We can choose to escape it though.
Sometimes there will be a shortcut for something that you want to refer to in double-quotes without it becoming a link. You can prevent Radio from processing the shortcut by putting a backslash before each of the quotes like this: \”My Summer Vacation\”. More information about backslashes is available in the text-editing cheat sheet.
Useful links for peeling back some layers: Userland Doc Server, Radio userGuide, Radio Shortcuts, Radio Troubleshooting.
Drive the Radio/Userland documents path at your own risk. The trick now is figuring out what is relevant from the online docs, which pieces of the layers are still included in the OPML Editor, and if/how things may have been modified, updated or deprecated.
Always back up your local OPML Editor directory before tweaking the databases, or adding new tools. I always say this. I don’t always do this. Do what I say, not what I do. On the other hand, there is just nothing like a fresh install.
Rooting for Workbench
Workbench.root is (was) a set of scripts that enhanced the functionality of a Radio UserLand weblog. This tool was developed by Rogers Cadenhead.
The tool includes Workbench.viewCategories(), a script to display category links on your home page template and other pages, and Workbench.viewPostIndex(), a script to display links to your posts in reverse chronological order.
Workbench.root is no longer supported by Rogers. I installed the tool in the OPML Editor and proceeded to debug/replace some of the obvious radio.weblog.init bits, etc. Made some progress, and got the initial “Update” link to work, but could not get the rest to fly.
Could be a nice addition to the OPML Editor with some time from an interested code warrior.
OpenID got Pressed
You can now use your WordPress.com blog URL as an OpenID
Notes
I was playing with categories again. Added and deleted some posts while offline. This one did not get picked up on 03/04/2007? I was tweakin’ in the backRoom of verbs. Hmm? I moved the post out of the 03 dir and then back in. Voila. Seems ok now. If it ain’t broke, well then tweak it til it is. May the source be with you.
This entry was assigned to the “notes” category.
Notes-2
This entry was assigned to the RSS category. Now I see what appears to be an easter egg link to my lowerCase rss in quotes above. Fixed. Heh!
