Closed jonas-schulze closed 1 week ago
Thanks for the suggestion.
I am concerned about the complications that this would introduce for users who already have space-separated dataview fields in their tasks, and then change the setting.
Please have a read of What do I need to know about the order of items in a task?. A comma between fields would break parsing, currently, as it is not a space.
I can't see a clean (maintainable) way of implementing this suggestion in the current code.
Once https://github.com/obsidian-tasks-group/obsidian-tasks/issues/1505 is implemented, this request would be easier to implement.
But I do feel that the right solution is for somebody to take the time to report the underlying Issue on the Obsidian Forum - that Obsidian displays reference-style links incorrectly in Live Preview mode.
But I do feel that the right solution is for somebody to take the time to report the underlying Issue on the Obsidian Forum - that Obsidian displays reference-style links incorrectly in Live Preview mode.
I've reflected on this, since writing the above. I am sure that it is the correct solution to the problem. @jonas-schulze, if you want to pair together to work on a Forum bug report, please email me at the address in my GitHub profile.
In view of this size of the backlog for this project, and the demotivating effect of a very long backlog on volunteer energy levels, I'm going through a continual process of reviewing tasks for things that are one or more of the following:
So I'm marking this one as 'not planned'. This doesn't mean 'won't fix' - it means not likely to be done in the foreseeable future.
⚠️ Please check that this feature request hasn't been suggested before.
🔖 Feature description
You should add a configuration option to automatically add
in front of dataview components.
,
instead of✔️ Solution
The added configuration option should affect the following part of the code.
https://github.com/obsidian-tasks-group/obsidian-tasks/blob/48e82505bc72511d595186d86bdc78c9a812a274/src/TaskSerializer/DataviewTaskSerializer.ts#L129-L134
The default/current behavior could, e.g., be named "Separate by two spaces". If set to "Separate by comma", above lines should behave like:
❓ Alternatives
You could separate by
,
regardless. Though, I did not consider all the situations where adding a leading comma may be undesirable. Given that #1505 is still open (as of 2024-04-26), I suppose that all dataview fields are at the end of a line. If that is the case, I personally would not mind the initial comma.📝 Additional Context
Such a configuration option would allow the tasks plugin to play more nicely with the "Remove multiple spaces" option of the linter. In particular, when marking a task done from within a
tasks
view, the linter is not run over that file to remove the leading spaces of the added[completion:: today]
. When the user is later editing that file directly, the linter is removing the duplicate space. This introduces unnecessary changes when synchronizing the vault using Git.Furthermore, suppose a user manually added
. For example,
,
in between two dataview components. After editing that task using the "Tasks: Create or edit task" command/GUI, all the,
will be replaced bybecomes
when immediately confirming the GUI dialog. Note the two spaces after the comma. Upon saving, the linter replaces the task by