YAML layer

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1. Description
- 1.1. Features:
2. Install
- 2.1. Layer
- 2.2. LSP
3. Syntax checking with flycheck

1. Description

This layer provides support for the YAML file format.

1.1. Features:

Syntax highlighting
Syntax checking via flycheck

2. Install

2.1. Layer

To use this configuration layer, add it to your ~/.spacemacs. You will need to add yaml to the existing dotspacemacs-configuration-layers list in this file.

2.2. LSP

To enable LSP, install yaml-language-server:

npm i -g yaml-language-server

And set the layer variable yaml-enable-lsp to t like shown below:

(setq-default dotspacemacs-configuration-layers
              '((yaml :variables yaml-enable-lsp t)))

3. Syntax checking with flycheck

Flycheck checks YAML files with either:

yaml-yamllint (requires yamllint)
yaml-jsyaml (requires the node-js package js-yaml)
or yaml-ruby (requires that ruby is installed on your system)

The flycheck YAML documentation can be found at the flycheck website.