Enabling --strip-comments=true by default #10343
Description
Hi! The current default is --strip-comments=false.
Like @ousia suggested elsewhere:
I think the ideal default would be --strip-comments=true. That way, HTML comments would be automatically removed for new users by default. They wouldn't have to look online in order to learn about the --strip-comments option and how to use it.
In the unlikely case that a user wanted to pass HTML comments through to the output file verbatim: They could manually specify --strip-comments=false.
Thank you for reading this, and for all the work you've done on Pandoc!
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Edit: I know that there are better ways to add comments to a Markdown file, instead of using HTML comment tags. But many people don't know about these better ways. Therefore, I still think it would be best to make --strip-comments=true the default.