Add automatic `fileSlug` key from file name

Match {slug-name}.md or YYYY-MM-DD-{slug-name}.md

[paulrobertlloyd]

Any progress on this one? I tried to patch it by creating a filter and using this in permalink creation, but turns out that page.url returns an incorrect value when using this approach — another bug?

Given the filter I created, while the desired files are created (/path/to/slug.html), page.url returns /path/to/.html (slug is missing). 🤔

[kleinfreund]

At this point in the world of static site generators, index.* is a special breed. Its main use is creating extension-less permalinks (e.g. thing/index.html can be reached at thing/ if the web server is set up that way).

Now inferring the slug from a file’s name would generate index from index.html and thing from thing.md. That’s very consistent. However, it’s not useful. In this case, it would mean trading consistency for the capability of writing meta data-less content.

As shown above, in a directory-specific data file one can specifiy a dynamic permalink based on {{ slug }}. However, one would not be able to generate an index.html at the root of that directory as the consistent solution always creates a slug; thus, a sub-directory will be created.

Another thought: thing.md producing thing/index.html is already inconsistent. Is index the title of that document? thing seems to be the slug. Then index can’t be. If index is not the slug, why is index.html resulting in index/indext.html?

Also, let me just clarify that I see why this rings your alarm bells. Breaking consistency always does. Let me know if I should clarify some bits. I’ve got the feeling that this already sounds rather abstract.