[GH-ISSUE #688] Documentation for "strict" and "stern" #2356

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Originally created by @aguynamedben on GitHub (Dec 21, 2022).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/DavidAnson/markdownlint/issues/688

The line-length rule has these settings:

# MD013/line-length - Line length
MD013:
  # Strict length checking
  strict: false
  # Stern length checking
  stern: false

Is there any documentation for how "strict" and "stern" affect the behavior of the linter? Do they produce warnings, but still a 0 return code? What's the difference between "strict" and "stern"?

Originally created by @aguynamedben on GitHub (Dec 21, 2022). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/DavidAnson/markdownlint/issues/688 The `line-length` rule has these settings: ```yml # MD013/line-length - Line length MD013: # Strict length checking strict: false # Stern length checking stern: false ``` Is there any documentation for how "strict" and "stern" affect the behavior of the linter? Do they produce warnings, but still a `0` return code? What's the difference between "strict" and "stern"?

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@DavidAnson commented on GitHub (Dec 22, 2022):

The documentation for rule MD013 explains these (and other) parameters: https://github.com/DavidAnson/markdownlint/blob/next/doc/md013.md

@DavidAnson commented on GitHub (Dec 22, 2022): The documentation for rule MD013 explains these (and other) parameters: https://github.com/DavidAnson/markdownlint/blob/next/doc/md013.md