Stripping leading whitespace in multiline templates

[unikitty37]

I have a template like this:

{{ if eq .chezmoi.os "darwin" -}}
  export A=1
  export B=2
  export C-3
{{ end }}

but this seems to treat it as a single string export A=1\n export B=2\n export C=3\n, meaning it just strips the very first two spaces and results in this substituted text:

export A=1
  export B=2
  export C=3

Is there a way to get it to strip whitespace on each line? I really don't want to have to put an if…end block for each line!

[twpayne]

Is there a way to get it to strip whitespace on each line? I really don't want to have to put an if…end block for each line!

You need to remove the whitespace yourself, i.e.

{{ if eq .chezmoi.os "darwin" -}}
export A=1
export B=2
export C-3
{{ end }}

See the text/template docs on whitespace for more information.

[unikitty37]

Thanks — I was hoping there'd be a way to indent the block and have it look neat in the template file, like Ruby's <<~ operator. Guss not 🙂