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[LINTER] Accept hard line breaks in markdown files
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Authored by Fabien on Sep 18 2020, 13:13.

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rABC88ac041b3196: [LINTER] Accept hard line breaks in markdown files
Summary

D7483 showed that the trailing whitespaces can actually be a feature from the markdown syntax, so they need to be excluded from the linter.
Exactly 2 whitespace is a [[ https://github.github.com/gfm/#hard-line-breaks | hard break ]]with the github flavored markdown (and maybe others).

Test Plan

No issue:

arc lint --everything

Add trailing a single or 3+ spaces to some markdown files, then:

arc lint

Ensure there is no error reported.

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Fabien requested review of this revision.Sep 18 2020, 13:13
jasonbcox requested changes to this revision.Sep 18 2020, 15:52
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I don't think this makes sense. Even if markdown supports trailing whitespace as a line break, it doesn't mean it's a good idea. Consider:

  • Not linting this will now allow accidental trailing whitespaces.
  • Trailing whitespace does not render well in all IDEs/editors.
  • Intentional line breaks should be obvious, which trailing whitespace are not.
This revision now requires changes to proceed.Sep 18 2020, 15:52
Fabien retitled this revision from [LINTER] Exclude markdown files from the trailing whitespaces linter to [LINTER] Accept hard line breaks in markdown files.Sep 18 2020, 17:16
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Don't exclude all markdown, but adds an exception to the linter for the hard break special case

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sep 18 2020, 18:21