Tactile posting

If you’re using Brad Choate’s Textile plugin for Movable Type, you’ve no doubt noticed it’s a pain to edit the pre-formatted <a> tag that’s generated by your MT bookmarklet. And if you haven’t, well, I have. Here’s how to patch your MT installation to make it all pretty and Textile-like.

1. Edit the file lib/MT/App/CMS.pm in your MT installation
2. Go to line 631, which should read:
   $param{text} = sprintf qq(<a title="%s" href="%s">%s</a>\n\n%s),
3. Replace that line with:
   $param{text} = sprintf qq("%s":%s\n\n%s),
4. Go down 3 more lines, to the second instance of:
   scalar $q->param('link_title'),
5. Delete that line (line 634 in an unmodified CMS.pm)

Enjoy.