quarto-dev / quarto-dev/quarto-cli
YAML error messages in the presence of parse errors are poor
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Since Mar 5, 2022.
enhancement
lint
yaml-validation
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Description
Consider this:
---
name:"mello"
title: "hello"
---
The YAML parsing fails, and hence we can't give the error message we would if instead we had
---
name:"mello"
---
I'm not sure how to fix this in general outside of writing a better YAML parser, and I really don't want to do that. We have a linting pass, and we could search for colons that don't have a space after them. But that might yield false positives, which are similarly annoying
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