--- a/frontends/src/jp/cmd_blog.py	Thu Mar 10 17:50:17 2016 +0100
+++ b/frontends/src/jp/cmd_blog.py	Thu Mar 10 18:05:37 2016 +0100
@@ -295,40 +295,41 @@
         SYNTAX_EXT.update(config.getConfig(sat_conf, 'jp', CONF_SYNTAX_EXT, {}))
         current_syntax = None
 
-        if item_lower == 'current':
-            # use wants to continue current draft
-            content_file_path = self.getCurrentFile(sat_conf)
-            content_file_obj = open(content_file_path, 'r+b')
-            current_syntax = self.guessSyntaxFromPath(sat_conf, content_file_path)
-        else:
+        if item_lower in ('new', 'last'):
             # we get current syntax to determine file extension
             current_syntax = self.host.bridge.getParamA("Syntax", "Composition", "value", self.profile)
             # we now create a temporary file
             tmp_suff = '.' + SYNTAX_EXT.get(current_syntax, SYNTAX_EXT[''])
             content_file_obj, content_file_path = self.getTmpFile(sat_conf, tmp_suff)
+            if item_lower == 'new':
+                self.disp(u'Editing a new blog item', 2)
+                mb_data = None
+            elif item_lower == 'last':
+                self.disp(u'Editing last published item', 2)
+                try:
+                    mb_data = self.host.bridge.mbGet('', '', 1, [], {}, self.profile)[0][0]
+                except Exception as e:
+                    self.disp(u"Error while retrieving last item: {}".format(e))
+                    self.host.quit(1)
+
+                content = mb_data['content_xhtml']
+                if content and current_syntax != 'XHTML':
+                    content = self.host.bridge.syntaxConvert(content, 'XHTML', current_syntax, False, self.profile)
+                content_file_obj.write(content.encode('utf-8'))
+                content_file_obj.seek(0)
+        else:
+            mb_data = None
+            if item_lower == 'current':
+                # use wants to continue current draft
+                content_file_path = self.getCurrentFile(sat_conf)
+                self.disp(u'Continuing edition of current draft', 2)
+            else:
+                # for now we taxe the item as a file path
+                content_file_path = os.path.expanduser(self.args.item)
+            content_file_obj = open(content_file_path, 'r+b')
+            current_syntax = self.guessSyntaxFromPath(sat_conf, content_file_path)
 
         self.disp(u"Syntax used: {}".format(current_syntax), 1)
-
-        if item_lower == 'new':
-            self.disp(u'Editing a new blog item', 2)
-            mb_data = None
-        elif item_lower == 'current':
-            self.disp(u'Continuing edition of current draft', 2)
-            mb_data = None
-        elif item_lower == 'last':
-            self.disp(u'Editing last published item', 2)
-            try:
-                mb_data = self.host.bridge.mbGet('', '', 1, [], {}, self.profile)[0][0]
-            except Exception as e:
-                self.disp(u"Error while retrieving last item: {}".format(e))
-                self.host.quit(1)
-
-            content = mb_data['content_xhtml']
-            if content and current_syntax != 'XHTML':
-                content = self.host.bridge.syntaxConvert(content, 'XHTML', current_syntax, False, self.profile)
-            content_file_obj.write(content.encode('utf-8'))
-            content_file_obj.seek(0)
-
         self.edit(sat_conf, content_file_path, content_file_obj, mb_data=mb_data)