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What text editor are you using? In theory most should detect a yaml file and adjust their indentation behaviour appropriately. I edit yaml in VSCode and Kate and it's never been a problem.
I use nvim for it, it works but I'd rather not have to deal with indentation in the first place
Well in that case, I have good news. All valid JSON is also valid yaml. It's a superset by definition. So if you really hate yaml so much you can just write your yaml files as JSON and the parser should handle it fine. Just be aware that yaml does some more agressive typecasting when quotes are omitted, so you may need to figure out which value is actually being used when converting.
Seriously? Chatgpt told me that once and I thought it was just hallucinating
Problem is it's for configuration of other services I didn't write, I would just use JSON in the first place if I were defining the schema
You should try looking up the language spec rather than hoping a text generator will generate truthful results. What's even the point of asking for answers if you don't trust that the thing you're asking won't just bullshit you?
Can usually tell when it's obviously bullshitting me and verify it if it's not. You can often get it to correct itself if you call it out
(This was the first time I've seen it incorrectly "corrected" itsself)
I think I did a quick search but it seemed so strange to me I just wrote it off straight away