Allow engines to specify default delimiters for auto-detection about gray-matter HOT 2 OPEN

I like this idea, I think we should be able to do this without any performance penalty. Labeling as a feature request for now, if you or someone wants to do a PR that would be great - it might be good to discuss approach first on this issue.

thanks for the issue!

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I was thinking that matter.language() would be the place to add this. You would just check to see if the first line of the input matched the default delimiter (defined in opts or ---). If not, you would take the trimmed first line and check it against the list of engines (those with a delimiter given). The delimiter (pair) of the matched engine should be added to the language object returned, alongside name and raw. The call to matter.language() would need to happen a bit earlier in the parseMatter function, but otherwise, it shouldn't be too dramatically changed.

The only question I see is how to handle situations where two different engines provide the same delimiter. Error? Last wins? There is no real order to the engines object, so it becomes a bit undefined.

Also, there are a couple of places in the code where defaults(opts).delimiters is referenced and would need to be swapped out for file.language.delimiters (or something similar). This would also allow stringification of files with proper delimiters as well.

Any thoughts on this? I don't mind tackling it if there aren't any other takers.

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