Ignoring blocks

[sc0ttj]

Hi,

I'd like to be able to document how my templates work in my blog, but I'm having trouble compiling pages which contain templates examples, because mo is always parsing them - I'd like to be able to force mo to skip certain blocks:

Some markdown here.

{{#ignore}}
These {{braces}} should be printed literally, not parsed and evaluated.
{{/ignore}}

More {{parsed}} text here, which `mo` actually does parse & evaluate.

Is there any easy way to achieve this?

Thanks :)

[fidian]

Not without rewriting how mo works, such as including a tokenizer or AST or other amazing technology that will handle the nested braces. Normally one will use syntax like this

{{! This is a comment }}

That won't work because you want to include the closing delimiter (}}) inside your comment.

{{! This is a comment but it {{fails}} on the embedded mustache syntax }}

The parser right now will stop the comment at the first set of close braces, which is (I believe) in-line with how the official spec would have it. I do not believe you are able to do what you want this way.

Another option is to use something that will equate to false.

{{false}}
    This is all hidden.
    Even the use of {{variables}} is ignored.
{{/false}}

Is that what you are looking to do?

[fidian]

One idea would be to switch the delimiters. This was just added to mo and I'd recommend giving that a shot.

I can reopen this issue if you still have issues with it.