Q: Could we have custom frontmatter fields such as uuid?

[mehdisadeghi]

Summary of issue

I would like to automate adding a uuid field to each post. Is this something that you would consider? In that case I can make a PR. I can think of having uid added by default or based on an option.

P.S. I use uuid as an identifier for generating unique feeds. As long as there is a unique ID inside each article, feed readers will know that it is still the same article, even if the content or title has changed.

[23maverick23]

Since using a uuid as an identifier on posts is something specific to your post workflow, I don't see it being a candidate for this package (i.e. I don't see this helping other users since it's a non-standard practice).

I would recommend building this yourself as a custom user plugin. Shouldn't take much code (I tossed this together and it seemed to work):

# /path/to/sublime/user/directory/InsertUuid.py
import uuid
import sublime
import sublime_plugin

class InsertUuidCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
    def run(self, edit, **args):
        view = self.view
        uuid_str = str(uuid.uuid4())
        for r in view.sel():
            if r.empty():
                view.insert(edit, r.a, uuid_str)
            else:
                view.replace(edit, r, uuid_str)

If you want to add this command to the command palette, just create a file like User.sublime-commands and add this:

[
    {
        "caption": "Insert UUID",
        "command": "insert_uuid"
    }
]

[mehdisadeghi]

@23maverick23 thanks for taking the time to write the script, I'll do it that way then.