This is a shortcut to change into my journal directory, create a new article, and then immediately start editing it.

.zshrc

read () {
  open "http://franklinwebber.com"
}

article () {

# change in to the directory where I keep my journal project
cd ~/journal 

echo "Creating article '$@'"

# Run the command to generate the article with the tool I use
output=$(middleman article "$@")

# The output of that command:
#
# WARN: Unresolved specs during Gem::Specification.reset:
#       rack (>= 1.0, >= 1.4.5)
#       thor (< 2.0, >= 0.15.2)
#       activesupport (~> 3.2.6)
#       rb-fsevent (>= 0.9.3)
#       rb-inotify (>= 0.9)
#       ffi (>= 0.5.0)
# WARN: Clearing out unresolved specs.
# Please report a bug if this causes problems.
# [deprecated] I18n.enforce_available_locales will default to true in the future. If you really want to skip validation of your locale you can set I18n.enforce_available_locales = false to avoid this message.
#  create source/entries/2015-09-13-me11.html.markdown

#
# We want the last line, and then we want the filepath.
# I found it hard to retrieve the filepath because of some ANSI color that Thor
# uses in the output so I use awk to grap the third term.
#

# echo $(echo $output |& tail -1 | awk '{print $3;}')

new_article=$(echo $output |& tail -1 | awk '{print $3;}')

# echo "vim $new_article"

vim $new_article
}