* use forked yaml.v2 so as to not lose line terminations present in jira fields

* adding a |~ literal yaml syntax to just chomp a single newline (again to preserve
existing formatting in jira fields)
* for indent/comment allow for unicode line termination characters that yaml will use for parsing

jira/cli/cli.go

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"github.com/kballard/go-shellquote"
 	"github.com/op/go-logging"
-	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
+	"gopkg.in/coryb/yaml.v2"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/http/cookiejar"
@@ -250,10 +250,7 @@ func (c *Cli) editTemplate(template string, tmpFilePrefix string, templateData m
 		}
 	}
 
-	editing := true
+	editing := c.getOptBool("edit", true)
-	if val, ok := c.opts["edit"].(bool); ok && !val {
-		editing = false
-	}
 
 	tmpFileNameOrig := fmt.Sprintf("%s.orig", tmpFileName)
 	copyFile(tmpFileName, tmpFileNameOrig)
@@ -275,6 +272,7 @@ func (c *Cli) editTemplate(template string, tmpFilePrefix string, templateData m
 				}
 				return err
 			}
+
 			diff := exec.Command("diff", "-q", tmpFileNameOrig, tmpFileName)
 			// if err == nil then diff found no changes
 			if err := diff.Run(); err == nil {

jira/cli/templates.go

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ const default_edit_template = `# issue: {{ .key }}
 update:
   comment:
     - add: 
-        body: |
+        body: |~
           {{ or .overrides.comment "" | indent 10 }}
 fields:
   summary: {{ or .overrides.summary .fields.summary }}
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ fields:
     - name: {{ .overrides.watcher}}{{end}}
   priority: # Values: {{ range .meta.fields.priority.allowedValues }}{{.name}}, {{end}}
     name: {{ or .overrides.priority .fields.priority.name }}
-  description: |
+  description: |~
     {{ or .overrides.description (or .fields.description "") | indent 4 }}
 # comments:
 # {{ range .fields.comment.comments }}  - | # {{.author.name}} at {{.created}}
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ const default_create_template = `fields:
     name: {{ or .overrides.priority "unassigned" }}
   components: # Values: {{ range .meta.fields.components.allowedValues }}{{.name}}, {{end}}{{ range split "," (or .overrides.components "")}}
     - name: {{ . }}{{end}}
-  description: |
+  description: |~
     {{ or .overrides.description "" | indent 4 }}
   assignee:
     name: {{ or .overrides.assignee "" }}
@@ -106,14 +106,14 @@ const default_create_template = `fields:
     - name:
 `
 
-const default_comment_template = `body: |
+const default_comment_template = `body: |~
   {{ or .overrides.comment "" | indent 2 }}
 `
 
 const default_transition_template = `update:
   comment:
     - add: 
-        body: |
+        body: |~
           {{ or .overrides.comment "" | indent 10 }}
 fields:{{if .meta.fields.assignee}}
   assignee:

jira/cli/util.go

@@ -125,15 +125,26 @@ func runTemplate(templateContent string, data interface{}, out io.Writer) error
 			}
 		},
 		"indent": func(spaces int, content string) string {
-			indent := make([]byte, spaces+1, spaces+1)
+			indent := make([]rune, spaces+1, spaces+1)
 			indent[0] = '\n'
 			for i := 1; i < spaces+1; i += 1 {
 				indent[i] = ' '
 			}
-			return strings.Replace(content, "\n", string(indent), -1)
+
+			lineSeps := []rune{'\n', '\u0085', '\u2028', '\u2029'}
+			for _, sep := range lineSeps {
+				indent[0] = sep
+				content = strings.Replace(content, string(sep), string(indent), -1)
+			}
+			return content
+
 		},
 		"comment": func(content string) string {
-			return strings.Replace(content, "\n", "\n# ", -1)
+			lineSeps := []rune{'\n', '\u0085', '\u2028', '\u2029'}
+			for _, sep := range lineSeps {
+				content = strings.Replace(content, string(sep), string([]rune{sep, '#', ' '}), -1)
+			}
+			return content
 		},
 		"color": func(color string) string {
 			return ansi.ColorCode(color)

jira/main.go

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/Netflix-Skunkworks/go-jira/jira/cli"
 	"github.com/coryb/optigo"
 	"github.com/op/go-logging"
-	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
+	"gopkg.in/coryb/yaml.v2"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"