Comment on Sanity checking an idea for editing yaml without wanting to throw my laptop out the window
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
What text editor are you using? In theory most should detect a yaml file and adjust their indentation behaviour appropriately. I edit yaml in VSCode and Kate and it’s never been a problem.
flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I use nvim for it, it works but I’d rather not have to deal with indentation in the first place
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Well in that case, I have good news. All valid JSON is also valid yaml. It’s a superset by definition. So if you really hate yaml so much you can just write your yaml files as JSON and the parser should handle it fine. Just be aware that yaml does some more agressive typecasting when quotes are omitted, so you may need to figure out which value is actually being used when converting.
flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Seriously? Chatgpt told me that once and I thought it was just hallucinating
Problem is it’s for configuration of other services I didn’t write, I would just use JSON in the first place if I were defining the schema
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
You should try looking up the language spec rather than hoping a text generator will generate truthful results. What’s even the point of asking for answers if you don’t trust that the thing you’re asking won’t just bullshit you?