[Proposal] Add a variable to describe site's content directory

[razonyang]

Hi, I use the Language.ContentDir to get the relative path of pages to the site root, which is useful for generating the links to view/edit the pages. But the internal use variable was removed on this commit, is there a workaround to get the relative path of the pages? Or is it possible to expose a function or variable to achieve this?

Thanks.

[bep]

I suggest you do something ala:

{{ with .File }}
{{ $relativeToContentDir := .Path }}
{{ end }}

Which isn't the same as what you do today as you would need to know that it's inside content, but the thing is, with a composite file system (multiple content dirs), there's no golden way of doing this without knowing more ...

Note that if you're talking about links to the files on disk (and not GitHub), you can do:

{{ with .File }}
{{ $absoluteFilename := .Filename }}
{{ end }}

[bep]

We can certainly add "something" to simplify the above, but I don't see what.

[razonyang]

Thanks for your suggestions, I want to generate links about the view/edit URLs of GitHub/GitLab, but I didn't figure out a solution.
The File.Path isn't enough to describe the path to the site root when ContentDir is set.
Is that possible to add a variable on File that return the path that includes the content or custom contentDir folder?
Or can I access the site root path so that I can manually transform the File.Filename and get the path I want.

[jmooring]

@razonyang This forum topic might be helpful, specifically:

{{ strings.TrimPrefix (os.Getenv "PWD") .File.Filename }}

For this to work, Hugo must be run within the project directory (i.e., cannot use hugo -s somedir).

[razonyang]

@jmooring Thanks, I thought about this, as you mentioned, $PWD isn't always reliable.

[jmooring]

This is what I really really want:

{{ strings.TrimPrefix hugo.WorkingDir .File.Filename }}

[razonyang]

@jmooring Thanks a lot, will try later.

[jmooring]

hugo.WorkingDir is not implemented---it is what I want.

[bep]

Sure, we can do that, but note that

{{ strings.TrimPrefix hugo.WorkingDir .File.Filename }}

Will not work for files in themes/modules.

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