Re: [Yaml-core] Non-indented scalars?

[Brian I. <in...@tt...>]

On 19/09/03 20:03 +0000, Clark C. Evans wrote:
> Sean,
> 
> There is not a "here" like mechanism in YAML, although it has been
> proposed many times.   It has been rejected before beacuse it 
> decreases readability, and most editors enable indenting easily.
> 
> If your editor does not provide a nice way to pre-indent files...
> then I recommend sed:
> 
>   $ sed 's/^/  /g' unindented.txt > indented.txt

It might also be possible for you to define your own start and end tags
and write a preprocessor script to then indent them properly for you. 

But YAML itself does not and should not support such tags.

Cheers, Brian

> 
> ;) Clark
> 
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 12:34:08PM -0700, Sean O'Dell wrote:
> | I was wondering if YAML had a syntax that allowed a scalar to NOT be 
> | indented throughout, but had perhaps START and END style tags for large 
> | blocks of data.  I have text blocks that I'm hand-pasting into a YAML 
> | file and getting everything indented properly is becoming a bit of a 
> | nightmare.
> | 
> | 	Sean O'Dell
> | 
> | 
> | 
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