Escaping dots in setValueAtPath or deleteValueAtPath

[felipecrs]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I'm now trying to use modify templates to edit my VS Code config, and its keys are full of dots:

{
    "window.titleBarStyle": "custom",
    "window.zoomLevel": 1,
    "editor.fontFamily": "FiraCode Nerd Font Mono"
}

However, these two chezmoi template functions interpret dots as nesting for keys.

Describe the solution you'd like

If there was a way to escape them, it would be nice. Perhaps:

{{ setValueAtPath "window\.titleBarStyle" "custom" }}

Describe alternatives you've considered

Fortunately, for my case I only need to set top level keys, so I can still use Sprig's set.

Additional context

N/A

[bradenhilton]

Maybe they should optionally accept a list of keys instead of splitting a path string?

[twpayne]

Maybe they should optionally accept a list of keys instead of splitting a path string?

Actually, they already do: https://www.chezmoi.io/reference/templates/functions/setValueAtPath/

setValueAtPath modifies dict to set the value at path to value and returns dict. path can be either a string containing a .-separated list of keys or a list of keys"

So @felipecrs you should already be able to do:

{{ setValueAtPath (list "window.titleBarStyle") "custom" }}

[felipecrs]

Oh, that's great. Thank you.

[bradenhilton]

@twpayne Ahh, I was looking at the code and got confused after going back and forth from keysFromPath (string) and setValueAtPathTemplateFunc (any) a few times.