Feature Request: Close YAML-header with ...

[seifferth]

Pandoc's syntax allows the use of ... as an alternaive to --- for closing YAML-headers, so this would be a valid document:

---
title: Document Title
author: Document Author
...

Document body in *markdown* starts here.

Would it be possible to treat this way of specifying YAML-headers the same as the currently supported way? This relates to #142 and #255.

[brrd]

It relies on CodeMirror's yaml-frontmatter mode, so the first step to solve this would be to develop this feature in CodeMirror: https://github.com/codemirror/CodeMirror

• yaml-frontmatter mode source: https://github.com/codemirror/CodeMirror/blob/master/mode/yaml-frontmatter/yaml-frontmatter.js
• yaml-frontmatter demo: https://codemirror.net/mode/yaml-frontmatter/index.html

[seifferth]

Thanks for the hint. I finally got around to opening a topic on the CodeMirror discussion board. I'll get back here once there is news from the CodeMirror side of things.

[seifferth]

The feature was merged into CodeMirror today. See codemirror/codemirror5#6020. So I guess this issue will resolve itself with the next CodeMirror update.