Sanity checking an idea for editing yaml without wanting to throw my laptop out the window (lemm.ee)

submitted 7 months ago by flashgnash@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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

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[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

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

You could probably do this pretty easily with a simple python script. Use the yaml parser to convert into a dictionary, use the JSON renderer to save that dictionary into a pipe file. Launch the visual editor of your choice on that file. When the editor exits, read the file as JSON, parse it back into a dictionary, and use the yaml renderer to save that dictionary back into the original file.

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah that was exactly what I was thinking, and/or doing a similar thing in lua as an nvim plugin

That said I'm not sure if neovim would support something like that

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