2021-07-25
|~1 min read
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As part of my project to create a personal wiki, I wound up modifying the frontmatter on nearly every one of my 900+ notes. This was because the tool I used, [nonplain.js](https://github.com/nonplain/nonplain.js has a perspective on which YAML format to use.
One of the consequences all of my titles were modified. Instead of:
---
title: "This is my really long title that tells a nice story because titles are a bit like APIs"
---
The tool modified it to be:
---
title: >-
This is my really long title that tells a nice story because titles are a bit like APIs
---
This is a folding style. The extra -
in >-
means that there’s no trailing line break (\n
) in the parsed line.
I love when tools teach me things!
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