ingydotnet
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1 year ago This seems like something most modern editors can do. Or at least should do. And certainly you could apply a visualization filter like:
$ show-yaml-indent < foo.yaml | lessBut adding this to the YAML language itself seems highly problematic.
Yaml files can grow in size to the point that column identation are difficult to visualize.
Consider the use of an arbitrary character (for example '·') as an alternative to white space. This character must be translated to a white space at parse time. The only purpose is to offer visual aid in any working context (console, printed paper, ...). The idea to simply allow for things like: