Automatic update of "modified:..." in .md file header

[Andy-ABTec]

Hi guys,

First post so please be gentle…

I’m currently working on the website for TV Rename (www.tvrename.com) which is contains many markdown files (.md) hosted using GitHub pages.

Problem is I keep forgetting to update the “modified:” tag in the file headers viz:

---

title: “Quick-Start”
permalink: /manual/quickstart/
excerpt: “This guide will help you with the initial setup TV Rename.”
modified: 2018-01-24T15:53:02-04:00
sidebar:
nav: “quickstart”
redirect_from:
- /theme-setup/

Is there a method (or plugin) that will automatically modify this entry when the file is saved?

Been looking for absolutely ages and haven’t found anything yet!

Cheers!

Andy B.

[PeterJones]

What you want is something that will set a callback on the FILEBEFORESAVE notification.

You could use PythonScript – download the latest using the Plugin Manager, or directly from the github repo releases. The Plugins > Python Script > Context-Help will bring up a help window; navigate to Notepad++ Object and scroll down to notepad.callback(function, notifications) for the syntax.

You can search this forum for “callback” to find other complete examples of how to set up a callback. (You would want to put the callback initialization in your startup.py in order to get it to be always enabled.) I believe there are also examples in the forum of applying a callback only to a particular type of file – for you, you’d presumably want it only if the file was a .md markdown file.

I assume LuaScript would also have the notification/callback feature, too (though I could be wrong).