Added g:jekyll_post_created to automatically add a strftime or epoch …

…to the YAML matter for new posts

doc/jekyll.txt

@@ -16,11 +16,14 @@ Example:
     let g:jekyll_path = "/path/to/jekyll/blog"
 
 The default post suffix is "markdown" and the post status is published. You
-can override these if you like.
+can override these if you like. You can also have a date/time automatically
+added to the YAML Matter.
 
 Example:
     let g:jekyll_post_suffix = "textile"
     let g:jekyll_post_published = "false"
+    let g:jekyll_post_created = "epoch"
+    let g:jekyll_post_created = "%D %T"
 
 You may also want to add a few mappings to stream line the behavior:
     map <Leader>jb  :JekyllBuild<CR>

plugin/jekyll.vim

@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ if !exists('g:jekyll_post_published')
   let g:jekyll_post_published = "true"
 endif
 
+if !exists('g:jekyll_post_created')
+  let g:jekyll_post_created = ""
+endif
+
 function s:esctitle(str)
   let str = a:str
   let str = tolower(str)
@@ -92,6 +96,12 @@ command! -nargs=0 JekyllList :call JekyllList()
 
 function JekyllPost(title)
   let published = g:jekyll_post_published
+  let created = g:jekyll_post_created
+  if created == "epoch"
+    let created = localtime() 
+  elseif created != ""
+    let created = strftime(created)
+  endif
   let title = a:title
   if title == ''
     let title = input("Post title: ")
@@ -100,7 +110,14 @@ function JekyllPost(title)
     let file_name = strftime("%Y-%m-%d-") . s:esctitle(title) . "." . g:jekyll_post_suffix
     echo "Making that post " . file_name
     exe "e " . g:jekyll_path . "/_posts/" . file_name
-    let err = append(0, ['---', 'layout: post', 'title: "' . title . '"', 'published: ' . published, '---', ''])
+
+    let template = ["---", "layout: post", "title: \"" . title . "\"", "published: " . published]
+    if created != ""
+      call add(template, "created:  "  . created)
+    endif
+    call extend(template,["---", ""])
+
+    let err = append(0, template)
   else
     call s:error("You must specify a title")
   endif