pre/code tags in feed are loosing the newlinines

[fabsenet]

Hi, I searched around, could not find any still open relevant issue for this, so here i go:

I have a page with a feed, the post contains multiline-code with newlines, the feed has still the code tag but all is in one paragraph now without newlines! I am not sure, what is wrong. My blog is not really far off from the jekyll default+minima?

the blog source is at https://github.com/fabsenet/blog_de
the blog runs at https://fabse.net
the feed is at https://fabse.net/feed.xml
A good example is the latest post, search for "isLedOn" (it is contained in this post: rendered / markdown)

I am not sure, maybe I configured something wrong? But all I know is, the end result is wrong.

Can you guys give me a hint?

[pathawks]

We do minify the feed template, but that shouldn't affect the content that goes inside that template.

jekyll-feed/lib/jekyll-feed/generator.rb

Line 49 in f879ed2

file.content = File.read(file_source_path).gsub(MINIFY_REGEX, "")

The template itself uses the strip filter, which should remove leading and trailing whitespace, but should not affect whitespace inside the content.

jekyll-feed/lib/jekyll-feed/feed.xml

Line 42 in f879ed2

<content type="html" xml:base="{{ post.url | absolute_url | xml_escape }}">{{ post.content | strip | xml_escape }}</content>

I'm not sure. I suppose the thing to do is to create a failing test and see if we can get to the bottom of what is stripping those spaces.

[pathawks]

@fabsenet I don't think this is anything that you have done wrong. Seems like a problem with the plugin.

[pathawks]

Hmm... we already do have a test for this.

jekyll-feed/spec/jekyll-feed_spec.rb

Lines 57 to 59 in 10071c5

	it "preserves linebreaks in preformatted text in posts" do
	expect(contents).to match /Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3/
	end

[pathawks]

The problem is the jekyll-minifier gem. It collapses all whitespace into a single space.

If you disable that plugin, the feed generates as expected.

You should open an issue there about keeping preformatted whitespace. 👍

[fabsenet]

jekyll-minifier was actually my first bet on the issue, but I disabled it to test it (at least I thought so) but removingit from the _config.yaml is not enough. I learned that now. I had to remove it from the gemfile as well.

at least you are right, removing jekyll-minifier also removes the problem of missing newlines. thanks so far 👍