Sometimes it takes a while between starting a post and publishing it and I forget to fix the date so that it reflects the actual publish time.

I would love an easy way to set a post's date to now. Something similar to the way easy-hugo-undraft works but it would update the date: (and probably lastmod:) in the frontmatter to the current date/time.

When I use .org file to create a post, the header does not follow my default.md file in the archetype folder.
New posts made in .md have all from the default.md and a description tag as well.
Would it be possible to make the new posts follow the default.md suggestions ?

Have had a look at the code and found that it was hard-coded so I have changed it and recompile the package for my need. However, I will need to do that on every update.
Maybe you should add the author and categories entries as most blogs use it.
Thanks
obrow

Hi, hugo's org support is quite fragile. It doesn't export source code blocks or tables correctly. I wonder if we can automatically convert org to markdown and use that as hugo's input file.

Hi,
I'm stumped about the deploy.sh part. The link about the password thing goes to a really old post. Plus, is it even deploy.sh anymore? Cuz I set mine up with .github/workflows/hugo.yaml ? As it says in https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-github/

So my question is: what do I do for deploy.sh? Is there a config I can copy/paste/edit? I'm really confused. I want to use easy-hugo because then I can write in org-mode instead of markdown. But it won't deploy at all so I don't know what to do.

Thx for any help.

I always keep forgetting the exact categories and tags used in previous post(s)

Sometimes, it is obvious, but a lot of times it is not.

Is is possible to provide auto-complete for the categories and tags ?

This could be done during the "New Post" where you ask for the filename.

Hello!

Thank you for this amazing tool. I have a few questions:

1. Will drafts and posts be picked up in all subdirectories under the content directory?
2. If I use the org-header, what is the header for a draft? Is it #+DRAFT: true ? or #+DRAFT: yes ? Or .. both .. or .. something else?
3. Will drafts show up both in the list of drafts and in the list of posts?
4. How do I help you test this if you need me to?

Hello,

I believe that the error message: Did you execute hugo new site bookshelf? is misleading, it took me a while to figure out that I had just mistyped the variable easy-hugo-basedir. The error pops out when the folder easy-hugo-basedir + content/posts doesn't exist, and I think that this should be the content of the error message.

Bye,
Sbozzolo

Now using package-installed-p but it can support users who install packages via package.el.

This doesn't support those who use Cask, el-get, etc.
Is it better to use require instead of package-installed-p?

(defun easy-hugo-ag ()
  "Search for blog article with counsel-ag or helm-ag."
  (interactive)
  (easy-hugo-with-env
   (if (require 'counsel nil t)
       (counsel-ag nil (expand-file-name easy-hugo-postdir easy-hugo-basedir))
     (if (require 'helm-ag nil t)
	 (helm-ag (expand-file-name easy-hugo-postdir easy-hugo-basedir))
         (error "'counsel' or 'helm-ag' is not installed")))))

Hello,

I'm relatively new to Emacs, so my knowledge on these types of issues is relatively limited. So I apologize if this is not really an easy-hugo issue at all.

I'm currently using the Spacemacs distribution of emacs and have installed easy-hugo as an additional package. When I launch easy-hugo mode and type n for a new blog-post, I get the following error:

user-error: "\<\>": pattern not found

However, I have not been able to trace this issue further due to a few problems:

• I've tried debugging easy-hugo-newpost by selecting the function in M-x debug-on-entry. However, the error occurs even before the function is called.

• Using w as the shortcut for hugo-newpost works fine and does not generate the same error.

• The above error occurs irrespective of me using Emacs mode or Evil mode in Spacemacs.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can trace this issue further?

easy-hugo config

  ;; Configure easy-hugo
  (with-eval-after-load 'easy-hugo
    (setq easy-hugo-basedir "f:/Balaji/Development/notebook/"
          easy-hugo-server-flags "-D"
          easy-hugo-postdir "content/posts"
          easy-hugo-image-directory "static/img"
          easy-hugo-url "https://nb.balaji.blog"
          easy-hugo-preview-url "http://127.0.0.1:1313/"
          )
    ;; (add-hook 'easy-hugo-mode-hook 'my-private-layer/easy-hugo)
    )

System Info

• OS: windows-nt
• Emacs: 26.3
• Spacemacs: 0.300.0
• Spacemacs branch: develop (rev. 72f280dc0)
• Graphic display: t
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: helm
• Layers:

(rust javascript html helm auto-completion emacs-lisp git
      (markdown :variables markdown-command "pandoc -t html5 -f markdown_mmd --mathjax --quiet --highlight-style=pygments --template template/github.html5 --css template/github.css" markdown-live-preview-engine 'pandoc)
      (org :variables org-enable-hugo-support t)
      (shell :variables shell-default-shell 'eshell shell-default-height 30 shell-default-position 'bottom)
      spell-checking emoji shell-scripts windows-scripts yaml dash chrome nginx
      (deft :variables deft-zetteldeft t)
      multiple-cursors windows-defaults my-private-layer)

• System configuration features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS MODULES THREADS LCMS2

How to specify different Hugo binaries for different blogs (for example if I they require different versions or I do not want to place hugo in PATH)?

I'm using emacs-easy-hugo with multiple blog,
and postdir setting is used by default.

However, I'd like to change postdir setting for specific one blog.
Give me a hint on how to deal with it.

Thanks for providing us with a great script.

By the way, I recently installed evil-mode.
I had some key-bind conflicts, but I have it set up as follows and it works fine.

(add-to-list 'evil-emacs-state-modes 'easy-hugo-mode)

However, only easy-hugo-newpost opens files with evil-nomal-state,
so I redefined the configuration file to open files with
evil-insert-state by adding the following command.

(defun easy-hugo-newpost (post-file)
((...
(when (get-buffer "*hugo*")
  (kill-buffer "*hugo*"))
(find-file filename)
(when evil-mode
  (evil-insert-state))
(goto-char (point-max))
(save-buffer))))

It is never a request for updete, just a report of one evil user.
Thank you very much.

hugo version :
("hugo" "v0.81.0+extended" "darwin/amd64" "BuildDate=unknown")

Debug:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument arrayp nil)
substring(nil 1)
(string-to-number (substring (nth 4 source) 1))
(let ((source (split-string (let ((temp-buffer (generate-new-buffer " temp" t))) (save-current-buffer (set-buffer temp-buffer) (unwind-protect (progn ...) (and ... ...)))) " "))) (string-to-number (substring (nth 4 source) 1)))
easy-hugo--version()
(progn (easy-hugo--version))

I have other folders in the top-level directory of the destination wehre I want to publish my blog. When I sync with the provided command, it will delete all files in the directory. What I would like is that only those files that are touched by hugo itself. rsync provides this capability when globbing (* operator) the source files. This means that there might be orphaned files created by hugo in the top-level directory, but I think the trade-off is worth it, as it prevents the surprised of finding unrelated files in the same directory deleted.

I have pasted a patch created with git format-patch.

From 023140b71cf1d1f98774405cd6628c9a848f3cc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jan=20Niklas=20B=C3=B6hm?= <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 03:20:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Do not delete other top level dirs in sync folder

---
 easy-hugo.el | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/easy-hugo.el b/easy-hugo.el
index 9e0537f..d3c607a 100644
--- a/easy-hugo.el
+++ b/easy-hugo.el
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ Report an error if hugo is not installed, or if `easy-hugo-basedir' is unset."
        (error "'hugo --destination public' command does not end normally")))
    (when (get-buffer "*hugo-publish*")
      (kill-buffer "*hugo-publish*"))
-   (shell-command-to-string (concat "rsync -rtpl --chmod=" easy-hugo-publish-chmod " --delete public/ " easy-hugo-sshdomain ":" (shell-quote-argument easy-hugo-root)))
+   (shell-command-to-string (concat "rsync -rtpl --chmod=" easy-hugo-publish-chmod " --delete public/* " easy-hugo-sshdomain ":" (shell-quote-argument easy-hugo-root)))
    (message "Blog published")
    (when easy-hugo-url
      (browse-url easy-hugo-url))))
--
2.15.1

Subject pretty much says it all. I like keeping images and stuff together with the post itself, instead of inflating the static directory.

Page bundles do not show up on the list of posts, however. It seems I can sort of switch around using the + and - keys, but I guess that is not the intended use of those functions? Also, that way I see either the flat posts, or the page bundles, but never both (i.e. it is hard to keep an overview of all posts).

Any hints appreciated.

Thanks for creating this!

I am puzzled about configuring multiple blogs. I tried adding a second one as described in the README:

 ;; Main blog
(setq easy-hugo-basedir "~/bookshelf/")
(setq easy-hugo-url "https://yourblogdomain")
(setq easy-hugo-sshdomain "blogdomain")
(setq easy-hugo-root "/home/blog/")
(setq easy-hugo-previewtime "300")
(define-key global-map (kbd "C-c C-e") 'easy-hugo)

(setq easy-hugo-bloglist
	;; blog2 setting
	'(((easy-hugo-basedir . "~/src/github.com/masasam/hugo2/")
	(easy-hugo-url . "http://example2.com")
	(easy-hugo-sshdomain . "myblogdomain")
	(easy-hugo-root . "/home/hugo/"))))

However, using the > and < keys to go back and forth between them doesn't work. From a quick look at the code, it seems that if easy-hugo-bloglist is defined, the configuration is only updated when there is more than one blog in that list, and it works if I add another entry like blog3 in the example.

When I do have the 3 blogs defined, < does not go back to the original one.

I'm aware of command-log-mode.el, but whatever you're using is much better. I can't find it.

Unlimited blogs can not be managed with the settings below.
Example of init.el
easy-hugo-basedir-1 ~ easy-hugo-basedir-9

So I'm going to update easy-hugo so that it works with complete lists of settings.
Example of init.el

(setq easy-hugo-bloglist '(((easy-hugo-basedir . "/home/masa/ppap") (easy-hugo-url . "http://example.com")) ((easy-hugo-basedir . "/home/masa/ppap1") (easy-hugo-url . "http://example.org")) ((easy-hugo-basedir . "/home/masa/ppap2") (easy-hugo-url . "http://example.net"))))

Hey there!

Just to drop this here in case anyone is interested.

I blog with Emacs and easy-hugo, and wanted to integrated some AI-assisted helper functions to help me speed up my blogging, using gptel.

https://github.com/kamushadenes/ai-blog.el

I'll add new stuff as I come across ideas.

Thanks for this amazing project!

This is a very general comment, but I used a similar package, Org2Blog, and it was not hard to understand it with some effort. emacs-easy-hugo may truly be easy, but I have no idea how to interpret large portions of the documentation. There are no actual examples, and I might need to devote a lot of time of mindless guesswork just to make it work. The idea is good, but the lack of organized documentation makes me think that I would be better suited by writing straight to markdown and using the command line.

If you really want more people to use this, I suggest you spend more time with the documentation and less time coding - at least for a while.

At this point, I'm giving up.

Thanks anyway.

@masasam ,
Thank you for your work with easy-hugo. It has really made working with hugo and org-mode a breeze.

I would like to find out if there is an option to sort the order of the published posts with the date of publishing rather than file creation/modification date?

If it is not there currently, can I please request you to treat this as a feature request?

Thanks again for the exemplary work
Bala

I am running in spacemacs and it seems to really break easy-hugo so I am not using that main menu yet.

I am running hugo 0.31 and I use .org as the default file extension. easy-hugo-newpost does initialize a new post but it does not use the org header.

First of all: many thanks for making easy-hugo! Just what I needed.

I have a question on how publishing works. The documentation is extremely terse, to be frank.

My site is on a shared web hosting, and I need to upload it via ftp. Thus, after generating the pages with Hugo, I would need a shell script to be called, which does the ftp upload.

From what I understood, I should probably be using easy-hugo-github-deploy and craft my own deploy.sh for this scenario?

Hello,

I like to put images which are part of the post in a dedicated folder, iow. something like:

test.md
test
└── myviber.jpg

which allows me to reference the image within test.md as:

{{< figure src="myviber.jpg" alt="My Viber" class="center" >}}

so I wonder what do you think about adding support for that?

Moreover, newer versions of Hugo also support bundles with the same/similar functionality, so the same question about support for that in Easy Hugo?

Hello,

thank you for very interesting package!

Considering I plan to use AsciiDoc(tor) markup with Hugo, what do you think to extend the package by adding support for AsciiDoc(tor)/reST markup formats?

Hi again, I'm sorry to bother you once more.
I'm trying to get org-mode checkboxes to render on my site, but they aren't. Instead of checkboxes at the start of every list item, they come out as little dots when they are exported. I'm not sure if that's easy-hugo's exporter or something else?

Please let me know if I'm doing something wrong? I'm just exporting an org-mode list of movies I've watched but the checkboxes definitely aren't exporting like they would from org-mode.

Thanks! Sorry again for the bother.

First, your package is amazing !
When I push the public directory to the server, (P) everything is created and pushed correctly except that the rights on the CSS directory become drwx------ and only for this directory. The website can't access the css folder.
If I take the public directory generated by easy-hugo and send it with my sftp client, the rights are drwxr-xr-x.
The rights are changing during the upload through the P command.
changing the rights manually makes the website work again correctly.
Thank you.

There is a undraft command already. A draft command would be nice to have.

Hello.

I have a blog on the github pages and I use this script for deployment:

#!/bin/bash

echo -e "\033[0;32mDeploying updates to GitHub...\033[0m"
hugo 

cd public
git add -A

msg="rebuilding site `LANG=C date`"
if [ $# -eq 1 ]
  then msg="$1"
fi
git commit -m "$msg"

git push origin master

cd ..

In the script git push command prompts for a ssh password in the console, but easy-hugo not request a password and therefore no changes are made to the server.

Is it possible to somehow request a password inside easy-hugo when deploying?

Hi,

After trying to hack together my own solution for posting to multiple folders in /content I found that you had already implemented easy-hugo-next-postdir which I think is exactly what I want.

However, when calling either easy-hugo-next-postdir or easy-hugo-prev-postdir I get the following:

helm-M-x: Lisp nesting exceeds ‘max-lisp-eval-depth’

This happens regardless of whether I have easy-hugo-postdir set or not. Here's what /content looks like...

.
├── lifestack
├── micro
│   └── 2017
└── post
    ├── 2000-2015
    ├── 2016
    ├── 2017
    └── 2018
        └── 2018-05-24_hugo-bundles

And here's my config:

  (setq easy-hugo-basedir "~/Sync/sites/blog/"
        easy-hugo-postdir "content/post"
        easy-hugo-image-directory "img/2018"
        easy-hugo-url ""
        easy-hugo-preview-url "http://localhost:1313/"
        easy-hugo-sshdomain ""
        easy-hugo-root ""
        easy-hugo-default-ext ".md"
        easy-hugo-default-picture-directory "~/tmp/outbox"
        easy-hugo-previewtime "300")

Emacs 26.1 and spacemacs (develop branch: f1f8db002af108f58c9a78c5286e8beca59af6de)

Hello,

I would like to use easy-hugo to manage my academic website, which is based on the academic hugo theme (https://github.com/gcushen/hugo-academic). In this theme there are many folders that contain content, ie one for posts, one for talks, and so on. Is there a way to manage this structure with easy-hugo?

I thought I could define many blogs with different postdirs. This requires a little tweaking in the source code but it is easily doable. Nonethless, I don't think it is a sleek solution. It would be nice if easy-hugo implemented directly the capability of switching post folder as it already does with swtiching blogs.

With regards,
sbozzolo

When editing an article, M-x easy-hugo-preview make preview of the article you are editing now.

Hello @masasam,
I absolutely love the ease of using easy-hugo. I, now, use your package with 4 hugo based websites 😄 . Thanks for your hard work.

I never tried using the Github deploy, but recently, I felt like experimenting with it. But when I tried, the entire path had a space in it and the error I got was always No such file or directory... <mypath>/deploy.sh

Recently, I found out that when the path did not have a space in it, then it worked fine.

Example, my path had the folder by name Our Websites. I renamed this to Websites and it started working fine.

Thanks and have a good day!
Bala

Hi, it would be really cool to have a command to insert a photo from a given local path or url

inspired form:
https://github.com/yewton/hugo.el#hugo-put-image

When the transient menu style is enabled with easy-hugo-enable-menu, pressing k or C-p or <up> doesn't move the point up. Point movements in other directions seem to work fine.

I'm having some trouble when trying to use the preview function. It errors with the message Symbol's function definition is void: url-do-setup. Am I missing a dependency?

I'm new to Emacs so sorry if this issue doesn't make sense.

Hi,
I am using easy hugo for some years.
I really like it.

The follwing code will do nothing when there is only 1 blog in easy-hugo-bloglist.
(defun easy-hugo-next-blog () "Go to next blog." (when (< 1 (length easy-hugo-bloglist)) (if (eq (- (length easy-hugo-bloglist) 1) easy-hugo--current-blog) (setq easy-hugo--current-blog 0)

In that case,
(length easy-hugo-bloglist)
return 1 and exit the function.

Should it be either of the following code?

(boundp 'easy-hugo-bloglist)
or
(when (< 0 (length easy-hugo-bloglist))

Well, I am trying to fix this issue but haven't got good solution.

Hello @masasam,
Thanks for the wonderful package easy-hugo.

I have a feature request to make:
Listing the publishing date of the posts in the list (#39 dealt with sorting, however a listing would also help, I think)

Thanks again for your wonderful work
Have a good day!
Bala

I'm not sure when this started, but when calling easy-hugo-newpost (20181022.833 in Emacs 26.1.1) hangs, requiring me to force quit (macOS). Steps:

1. Start easy-hugo
2. Run easy-hugo-newpost
3. Type a filename (e.g. myfile.md)
4. Hit return

At this point, Emacs (gui, macOS) becomes unresponsive. The new file is created correctly, though. Not sure how to help debug this, but let me know if there's anything I can do.

Jack

when i use evil mode enter easy-hugo mode, easy-hugo's key map is invalid

Thank you very much for easy-hugo it is a pleasure to use it !

hugo version : 0.69.2
emacs version: 26.3
orgmode version: 9.3.6

When pushing the blog, everything seems to work perfectly but I get an error report with rsync.

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "’rsync’ command does not end normally")
  signal(error ("’rsync’ command does not end normally"))
  error("'rsync' command does not end normally")
  easy-hugo-publish()
  easy-hugo-publish-clever()
  funcall-interactively(easy-hugo-publish-clever)
  #<subr call-interactively>(easy-hugo-publish-clever nil nil)
  apply(#<subr call-interactively> easy-hugo-publish-clever (nil nil))
  call-interactively@ido-cr+-record-current-command(#<subr call-interactively> easy-hugo-publish-clever nil nil)
  apply(call-interactively@ido-cr+-record-current-command #<subr call-interactively> (easy-hugo-publish-clever nil nil))
  call-interactively(easy-hugo-publish-clever nil nil)
  command-execute(easy-hugo-publish-clever)

I don't know if it is related to easy-hugo or not. It is unclear for me so I am just asking if you could help with that.

Thank you.

Couldn't the value for easy-hugo-url be auto-detected from the baseURL parameter in the config.(toml|yaml|json) file?

Sometimes it is necessary to convert a title to slug - it could be a blog post title, or a section title. It would be nice to have a helper function in easy-hugo that converts selected text to a slug in the same way as hugo (goldmark?) does: https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/difference-in-auto-generated-heading-anchor-names-between-previous-versions-and-v0-60-0-or-higher/22076

It would be nice to open url with current post link under the point if there is one.

Now hotkeys not work, i think its need binds.