Proposal: --write-to-stdout-on-ast-error

[KyleKing]

Context

When debugging issues, it would be helpful if users could just write the incorrect changes anyway. This way, when someone sees the message from #463, they can post the incorrect changes to help maintainers replicate and debug the issue. Adding a workaround like this to a local fork of mdformat has been part of my workflow in the past

Proposal

When there is an ast error detected and the CLI argument is provided, mdformat could write to STDOUT

                if opts["write_to_stdout_on_ast_error"]:
                    sys.stdout.buffer.write(formatted_str.encode())
                print_error(
                    f'Could not format "{path_str}".',
                    ...

[hukkin]

Thanks for the issue! Would #50 work here?

[KyleKing]

Yeah, I like either --unsafe or --skip-validation

[hukkin]

👍 closing this in favor of #50 then