Immutable String Representation (Feature)

[BebeSparkelSparkel]

I have some strings that I have carefully constructed and do not want modifications made to them when linted.

Could an option be added to specify that string content representation should not be changed?

Example of the string representation change that I would like to avoid. The Unicode escapes are translated to their corresponding characters.

-          "pattern": "^(?:\\\\x[0-9A-F]{2}|[\u0020-\u007E])+$",               
+          "pattern": "^(?:\\\\x[0-9A-F]{2}|[ -~])+$", 

[prantlf]

Thanks for contributing the PR! Let's have a look at it.

[prantlf]

I reliased that you closed your PR, probably because you realised that this feature is already available :-)

Yes, as soon as you enable pretty-printing, string literals in the output will remain the same as they were in the input. The default settings of pretty-printing are the same as for JSON.stringify with indentation by 2 spaces.

I think that it isn't worth adding a new option for this output mode, but it's worth mentioning this use case as an example.

[prantlf]

A notice added to readme for 16.1.0.