Does not respect JSON style YAML.

[envygeeks]

Even though the spec doesn't explicitly display JSON style YAML it allows for it because of the massive spec and the way it allows certain kinds of sub-keys, however Atom's YAML parser does not recognize or respect keys and values in the following format (the way that it does with JSON itself):

{
  "key": "value"
}

[szhu]

Screenshot for illustration

[FranklinYu]

I think the YAML specification do explicitly display this. It's called Flow Collection Styles. Note that quotation mark is optional when key or value don't have whitespace:

outerkey: {key: value, "key with whitespace": "value with whitespace"}

which is equivalent to

outerkey:
  key: value
  "key with whitespace": value with whitespace

[winstliu]

@FranklinYu Yep, I started working on it but never got the chance to finish it.

[jjlorenzo]

Hi any news from this?

[Nixinova]

Here's an entire file that is wrongly colored due to this bug: https://github.com/Nixinova/Minecraft-Versions/blob/HEAD/src/versions.yml
It thinks the first colon from a json key makes the entire preceding text the key