On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 16:44:10 GMT, Byron wrote:

I want to find out about adding some support to diet to make using some templates easier.

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I have nested handlebars templates, ex: 

  .list
      | {{#each}}
         p {{name}}
      | {{/each}}

This results in the {{...}} losing the nested level. Not a big issue but does make debugging templates a little tricky when there are several levels of these.
Maybe: 

  .list
      + {{#each}}
         p {{name}}
      + {{/each}}

I'd solve this similar to Jade and change the code to keep indentation by default. Only for <pre> tags it would still default to removing indentation. It would then probably also makes sense to control the behavior using the existing >/< whitespace control suffixes.

Attributes with an identifier

Handle bars uses nested {{ .. }} in the attribute list 

<button class="btn btn-default" {{action 'edit'}}> Edit </button>

Currently my options are: 

//- wraps the button in a div
< <button class="btn btn-default" {{action 'edit'}}> Edit </button>
//- Or a d string
|!= `<button class="btn btn-default" {{action 'edit'}}> Edit </button>`

Would be nice to support adding attributes like this 

button.btn.btn-default("{{action 'edit'}}") Edit


//- Common jade hack, but fails to compile in diet
button.btn.btn-default(""="{{action 'edit'}}") Edit

Not sure how hard these would be to support, or if the community would want these.

Sounds like a good addition. Provided that only a string constant is accepted there (starting with either " or '), it should also be pretty straight forward to implement.

If you find some time it would be great if you could open a quick ticket on the issue tracker so that this stays on the radar.