Add code snippets for front matter

[Jairo Llopis]

I guess being able to inject YAML/TOML front matter would be great.

At least I have this useful snippet in my blog:

{
  "date": {
    "prefix": "date",
    "body": "$CURRENT_YEAR-$CURRENT_MONTH-${CURRENT_DATE}T$CURRENT_HOUR:$CURRENT_MINUTE:$CURRENT_SECOND",
  }
}

it helps a lot! I guess there could be more, like a full one with page title, slug, date, tags, draft true/false, etc...

[Bud Parr]

Hey, @yajo This is handled already by Hugo archetypes, which can be easily customized for the need.

[Jairo Llopis]

Yes, but if I start making a post and then days later I want to update its date to publish it, archetypes don't work for that, and updating the date in this format by hand is a little bit costly, while with the snippet is pretty fast.

[Jairo Llopis]

OTOH for the default front matter it works great, thanks for the tip!

[Jairo Llopis]

Ehmm so you aren't going to add the snippet? Want me to do the PR? 🙄

[Bud Parr]

Yes, you're totally welcome to submit a PR