Using undefined shortcodes

Description/Summary

Using an undefined shortcode below! To see the issue, remove the x from {x{ below, and run hugo server. {x{< img src="foo.png" >}} Issue The website will generate fine, but with a silent error on the terminal: ERROR 2017/11/02 10:37:54 Unable to locate template for shortcode "img" in page "posts/src-block-hugo-shortcoded-undefined.md" The hugo server run server will keep on living, and generating the pages almost correctly, while just balking on shortcode expansions!

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Using an undefined shortcode below!

To see the issue, remove the x from {x{ below, and run hugo server.

{x{< img src="foo.png" >}}

Issue

• The website will generate fine, but with a silent error on the terminal:

  ERROR 2017/11/02 10:37:54 Unable to locate template for shortcode "img" in page "posts/src-block-hugo-shortcoded-undefined.md"
  

• The hugo server run server will keep on living, and generating the pages almost correctly, while just balking on shortcode expansions!

With special shortcode comment chars

Now, as an invalid shortcode img was used above, none of the following short codes seem to get processed. So {{</* .. */>}} appears as it is below.

{{< figure src="/images/org-mode-unicorn-logo.png" title="Org Mode + Hugo Rock!" >}}

Without special shortcode comment chars

Now, as an invalid shortcode img was used above, none of the following short codes seem to get processed. So even {{< .. >}} appears as it is below.

So, what should be fixed?

I think, that if an invalid shortcode is found, Hugo should simply abort the hugo server, so that a user doesn’t think that things are good. This issue left me confused for a while as to why the shortcodes with comment chars were behaving differently.

It’s good that hugo aborts right away on finding this undefined shortcode img, but hugo server keeps on living.

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