branch: externals/denote commit 2bc5df6011b345cbe2e6c1024cc5ca5b0feca36a Author: Protesilaos Stavrou <i...@protesilaos.com> Commit: Protesilaos Stavrou <i...@protesilaos.com>
denote-file-type: 'markdown-yaml', not 'markdown' This makes it specific that the front matter is YAML-compliant. It also gives us the option to support TOML. Thanks to Kaushal Modi for the feedback in issue 4 over at the GitHub mirror: <https://github.com/protesilaos/denote/issues/4>. --- README.org | 6 +++--- denote.el | 23 ++++++++++++----------- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.org b/README.org index d89c6af2a3..e895d863e8 100644 --- a/README.org +++ b/README.org @@ -252,8 +252,8 @@ This is how it looks for Org mode (~denote-file-type~ is nil): #+identifier: 20220610T134640 #+end_example -For Markdown, it looks like this (~denote-file-type~ has the =markdown= -value): +For Markdown, it looks like this (~denote-file-type~ has the +=markdown-yaml= value): #+begin_src emacs-lisp --- @@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ Everything is in place to set up the package. '("emacs" "philosophy" "politics" "economics")) (setq denote-infer-keywords t) (setq denote-sort-keywords t) -(setq denote-file-type nil) ; default is Org mode, else set `markdown' or `text' +(setq denote-file-type nil) ; default is Org mode, else set `markdown-yaml' or `text' (setq denote-front-matter-date-format 'org-timestamp) diff --git a/denote.el b/denote.el index bdb23d64a2..f6ab12da7a 100644 --- a/denote.el +++ b/denote.el @@ -117,15 +117,16 @@ If nil, show the keywords in their given order." By default (a nil value), the file type is that of Org mode. -When the value is the symbol `markdown', the file type is that of -Markdown mode. +When the value is the symbol `markdown-yaml', the file type is +that of Markdown mode and the front matter uses a YAML-compliant +way to represent tags. When the value is `text', the file type is that of Text mode. Any other non-nil value is the same as the default." :type '(choice (const :tag "Org mode (default)" nil) - (const :tag "Markdown" markdown) + (const :tag "Markdown" markdown-yml) (const :tag "Plain text" text)) :group 'denote) @@ -315,7 +316,7 @@ output is sorted with `string-lessp'." (defun denote--file-extension () "Return file type extension based on `denote-file-type'." (pcase denote-file-type - ('markdown ".md") + ('markdown-yaml ".md") ('text ".txt") (_ ".org"))) @@ -349,13 +350,13 @@ TITLE, DATE, KEYWORDS, FILENAME, ID are all strings which are provided by `denote-new-note'." (let ((kw (denote--file-meta-keywords keywords))) (pcase denote-file-type - ('markdown (concat "---" "\n" - "title: " title "\n" - "date: " date "\n" - "tags: " kw "\n" - "identifier: " id "\n" - "---" "\n" - "\n")) + ('markdown-yaml (concat "---" "\n" + "title: " title "\n" + "date: " date "\n" + "tags: " kw "\n" + "identifier: " id "\n" + "---" "\n" + "\n")) ('text (concat "title: " title "\n" "date: " date "\n"