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Support for auto-indent blocks

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reviewing the linked Jinja pull request #919 and the issue's proposed '{%* ... %}' syntax. No repository files or tests are named, so locate the template parsing and rendering entry points before deciding the scope. Done means variable and statement blocks preserve the surrounding indentation for multiline strings, including YAML-like output.

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Description

enhancement

https://github.com/pallets/jinja/pull/919

Support for blocks (either variable or statement) which preserve the indentation:

Blocks now support a new syntax '{%* ... %}' that aligns the indentation of
multiline string with the block statement itself. This is especially
useful when templating YAML or other languages where indentation matters. Example:

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