In the rare case when the key before `:` is an alias (e.g. `{*x : 4}`),
the space before `:` is required (although this requirement is not
enforced by PyYAML), the reason being that a colon can be part of an
anchor name. Consequently, this commit adapts the `colons` rule to avoid
failures when this happens.
See this comment from Tina Müller for more details:
https://github.com/adrienverge/yamllint/pull/550#discussion_r1155297373
The `# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-` headers were useful for Python 2, and
aren't needed for Python 3 where UTF-8 is the default.
yamllint support of Python 2 was dropped in early 2021, see commit
a3fc64d "End support for Python 2".
Let's drop these headers.
YAML content like the following one produced an error, because the
multi-line ScalarToken ends at the beginning of the 4th line (the one
with the value):
? >
multi-line
key
: value
Using either 'yes', 'no' or 'whatever', the user will be able to choose
whether to force block sequence items to be indented, to force them not
to be indented, or don't care, respectively.
Adrien Vergé