Often find myself getting frustrated editing yaml, and it seems to be used everywhere for some reason I cannot fathom

I have an idea to write an editor plugin that will, when opening a yaml file, convert it to json (or some other less painful configuration language), then convert back on save. I don’t know enough about yaml syntax to know if that’s possible or if there’s some quirk that makes them not completely cross compatible

Or alternatively if it exists a better CLI tool for editing yaml than just a normal text editor because I’m getting sick of pasting in a block of yaml and then having to fix the 8 indentation errors that somehow spawn from that

  • flashgnash@lemm.eeOP
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    7 months ago

    I’m using neovim. It doesn’t magically solve my problems with yaml though

    • eleitl@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      I’m not a power yaml user by any means, but syntax highlighting and linting pipelines do help.