On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 1:32 PM Stephan Gerhold <stephan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Actually, the pipe | effectively means that new lines \n will be > preserved in the parsed output, i.e. > > something: > Hello > World > > means "Hello World", while > > something: | > Hello > World > > means "Hello\nWorld\n". Oh that's nice, I learned something new today :D Combined with fixed-width font it will indeed preserve ASCII gfx too. But I don't know of a way to guarantee fixed-width :/ https://yaml-multiline.info/ explained even more. Nice! Yours, Linus Walleij