Is it possible to make mustache statements a little cleaner?

[donnyv]

Is it possible not to have to close every mustache statement with its opening statement?
For example instead of this

    <div style="text-align:center;">
        {{#if feature_count > 0 && is_processing == false }}
        <span><b>{{feature_count}}</b> features found</span>
        {{/if}}
        {{#if is_processing}}
        <img src="Content/imgs/red-ajax-loader.gif" style="margin-right:10px;" />
        {{/if}}
        {{#if status_msg && feature_count > 0}}
        <br/>
        {{/if}}
        {{#if status_msg}}
        <span style="{{ is_processing ? "" : "color:#bf0000" }};">{{status_msg}}</span>
         {{/if}}
     </div>

....have this

    <div style="text-align:center;">
        {{#if feature_count > 0 && is_processing == false }}
        <span><b>{{feature_count}}</b> features found</span>
        {{/}}
        {{#if is_processing}}
        <img src="Content/imgs/red-ajax-loader.gif" style="margin-right:10px;" />
        {{/}}
        {{#if status_msg && feature_count > 0}}
        <br/>
        {{/}}
        {{#if status_msg}}
        <span style="{{ is_processing ? "" : "color:#bf0000" }};">{{status_msg}}</span>
         {{/}}
     </div>

Its a small change but it makes it easier to read.

[evs-chris]

You can do that if you skip the section names:

<div style="text-align:center;">
        {{#(feature_count > 0 && is_processing == false) }}
        <span><b>{{feature_count}}</b> features found</span>
        {{/}}
        {{#is_processing}}
        <img src="Content/imgs/red-ajax-loader.gif" style="margin-right:10px;" />
        {{/}}
        {{#(status_msg && feature_count > 0)}}
        <br/>
        {{/}}
        {{#status_msg}}
        <span style="{{ is_processing ? "" : "color:#bf0000" }};">{{status_msg}}</span>
         {{/}}
     </div>

[donnyv]

Thats how I originally had it. But I like having the extra statements around it "if, each, etc".
It tells me if the section is a if statement or loop.

[evs-chris]

Looking back into the if, etc support issues, it would seem that they are not part of mustache, but part of handlebars. It looks like handlebars requires the closing section to have the correct string behind it. See #770 (comment)

[MartinKolarik]

Looking back into the if, etc support issues, it would seem that they are not part of mustache, but part of handlebars. It looks like handlebars requires the closing section to have the correct string behind it.

Exactly. And I don't think we should change it.

[donnyv]

Its not a big deal. I just like to remove as much as possible when coding.

[martypdx]

@donnyv let's keep it as-is