From 03816396902beea8438c95d9cea1111e6c613c9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Micah Jerome Ellison <micah.jerome.ellison@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2022 14:06:37 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Prevent ruamel from collapsing config YAML

---
 jrnl/config.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/jrnl/config.py b/jrnl/config.py
index b061be5f..fcdc72bb 100644
--- a/jrnl/config.py
+++ b/jrnl/config.py
@@ -51,12 +51,16 @@ def make_yaml_valid_dict(input: list) -> dict:
 def save_config(config, alt_config_path=None):
     """Supply alt_config_path if using an alternate config through --config-file."""
     config["version"] = __version__
+
+    yaml = YAML(typ="safe")
+    yaml.default_flow_style = False # prevents collapsing of tree structure
+
     with open(
         alt_config_path if alt_config_path else get_config_path(),
         "w",
         encoding=YAML_FILE_ENCODING,
     ) as f:
-        YAML(typ="safe").dump(config, f)
+        yaml.dump(config, f)
 
 
 def get_config_path():