Renaming tags when braces used in front matter causes unexpected behaviour about tag-wrangler

[pjeby]

See https://github.com/pjeby/tag-wrangler#front-matter -- whitespace in frontmatter is not guaranteed to remain the same after renaming tags. The value of the frontmatter hasn't been changed here, only the spacing. (In YAML, [ [ x ] ] and [[x]] are both the same as [["x"]] in JSON: that is, they are all ways of saying "a list containing a list containing a string".)

Plugins that conform to the YAML spec should not be affected by the change in whitespace.

[jacrify]

Yeah I read the linked limitation before filing. However the case I’m talking about isn’t covered there. The link states: However, due to limitations of the parser involved, some whitespace in the front matter may be removed or reduced. I’m not seeing whitespace *removed*, but introduced, and as part of a value that doesn’t contain tags. It’s pretty destructive. I’m guessing you are parsing and rewriting the whole yaml block and this is why? Is there a way I can put [[]] links in my yaml that won’t be impacted by this? Love the plug-in otherwise.

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[pjeby]

Yes, it has to be parsed and rewritten. The whitespace changes are introduced by the yaml parser.

As for not having links impacted, plugins that look for links as nested lists will not care about the extra spaces: the value of the field is not actually being changed, only its formatting. Plugins that use the parsed metadata will not care about the extra spaces, and Obsidian itself has no concept of links in frontmatter.

If the whitespace bothers you for some reason, and you're using plugin(s) that support string links (like dataView does), you can simply use "[[whatever]]" (i.e. put the entire link in quotes).