Quickly linking to jekyll posts in vim

I made a vim plugin that finds all your jekyll posts, lists them, lets you select one, then creates a link right there in your current markdown file.

You can get it here¹

Here it is in action

What is this shit

If you want to link to one of your own posts in a markdown file for jekyll, it looks like this

[link title]({% post_url 2024-12-10-foobar %})

It’s a good system because if your website domain changes you don’t have to find all the links you made in the past, they get auto-updated each time you generate the website.

I don’t like having to look up the date and title of a post manually, it breaks my flow and with over 1300 posts now on this website it’s actually quite cumbersome to do. Yeah maybe that means I should think about a search feature on my own site. But ugh I cannot be arsed with that right now.

Anyway this lets me generate that link in vim, which is my text editor of choice. I just press ,p and bam all my posts appear, and they can be searched. Then when I press enter the link appears right where I want it.

The thing that’s really doing the heavy lifting here is the wonderful fzf², it’s what lets you do all the searching, selecting, drawing windows etc etc. In my script I’m just looking up posts, their titles, then feeding it all to fzf.