Dot in variable names cause problem inside <frontmatter>

[damithc]

See build error https://travis-ci.org/github/reposense/RepoSense/jobs/700289052

Caused by this code:

<variable name="title">`run.sh` format</variable>
<frontmatter>
  title: "{{ title }}"
</frontmatter>

Specifically, it's the . in run.sh that's causing the problem. @ is similarly problematic but not :.
This problem is present in v2.14.1 but no longer present in the current master.

Sharing here in case it is useful.

[damithc]

@ang-zeyu do you know who this got fixed?

[ang-zeyu]

not sure, wasn't even aware of this.
the logs seem to indicate that the content was "cut off" abruptly by a newline though

title: "Using 
, position=18, line=2, column=0, stack=YAMLException: unexpected end of the stream within a double quoted scalar at line 3, column 1:

not sure how a . or @ translates to that

let's leave this open and document it in code if someone figures it out 😃

[damithc]

A git bisect tells me this is the commit that fixed it d6a00b0

[ang-zeyu]

Seems to be due to the > character indicating a yaml block, removing/adding a @ or . didn't work for me

https://yaml-multiline.info/

The previous implementation rendered the variables as inline markdown into <code>...</code> ... before storing the variables, which isn't necessary as we do a full pass later on.

shouldn't be necessary to document in code since it was a removal =X

[damithc]

Seems to be due to the > character indicating a yaml block, removing/adding a @ or . didn't work for me

I forgot to mention that it only worked when I removed both back-tick and the dot. Removing the back-tick wasn't enough. I assumed dot was the problem as it was the last thing I removed but it's possible that back-tick is problematic too.

[ang-zeyu]

I forgot to mention that it only worked when I removed both back-tick and the dot. Removing the back-tick wasn't enough. I assumed dot was the problem as it was the last thing I removed but it's possible that back-tick is problematic too.

Noticed I removed the . from the backticks which caused it to be treated as <code> still, which is why it didn't cause:

• run.sh would turn into <a href="http://run.sh">run.sh</a> which contains > otherwise
• @ together with . does cause it to be treated as an email anchor which contains > as well (@ dosen't cause issues alone for me though)

We should probably add a note to the ug that the frontmatter follows yaml spec