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Config file flexibility and output readability

Open beelsr opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

Hi there.

Just found this project. I've been rolling my own files for years, lovingly hand-crafted, err, crufted but I think this will suit much better. Installed fine in cygwin and currently importing some files. Kudos, etc...

Just a quick few edits in the um-config parser - break nothing and make the config formatting more flexible.

I like to comment my config files (why go searching through some other doc to find something when you can put it right there in the file), so I added that to the if... anchored to the beginning of the line and allow whitespace only before the #. Also, aligning the attribute,value,equals in config files makes it easier to read (at least to me), so I added also that to the if... anchored like the comments and a simple swap out of " " for "\s+".

So, the following lines that would previously throw an error, are now accepted:

# this is a comment
   # and so it this
 pager    =    less
editor    =   joe

I hope you like it and merge it in. Thanks for the read.

Cheers!

beelsr avatar May 26 '21 19:05 beelsr