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Add Vale test for use of GLFM emoji syntax in Markdown

Russell Dickenson requested to merge russell/vale-exclude-use-of-emoji into master

What does this MR do?

Adds a Vale warning-level test for use of GitLab Flavored Markdown emoji in documentation source files because they're not supported by Kramdown, the Markdown renderer used for the GitLab documentation.

To test for GitLab Flavored Markdown emoji, the following regex is used:

(?:\s+|^):[a-zA-Z0-9\-_\+]+:(?:\s+|$)

Which matches the following sequence in the text scope (which excludes headings, code blocks, and inline code):

  • either at the start of a line, or preceded by one or more spaces, followed by...
  • a colon, followed by...
  • any multiple of letters, digits, hyphens, or underscores, followed by...
  • a colon, followed by...
  • either the end of the line, or one or more spaces, or a period.

Where GLFM emoji are enclosed in backticks, they will not be flagged because the backtick signifies the code syntax, and only content in the text Vale scope are covered by this test.

The following edge cases are not detected by this regex. They are very unlikely, so not worth spending time on:

  • Emoji syntax surrounded by one or more spaces inside backticks.
  • Multiple emoji on the same line, separated by one or more spaces. The first will be detected, which is sufficient.

Related issues

Related to #368682 (closed)

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Edited by Russell Dickenson

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