quarto-dev / quarto-dev/quarto-cli

report parse errors in YAML blocks

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Since May 9, 2024.

enhancement yaml-validation
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Description

Currently, our YAML error reporting infrastructure produces nice errors about YAML values not matching expectations. We should extend it to report parse errors as well.

Minimal example:

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This file doesn't render:

$ quarto render test.qmd
ERROR: YAMLError: test.qmd:
bad indentation of a mapping entry at line 3, column 8:
     format: pdf
           ^

But we should show the error on RStudio and VSCode as well.

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