Re: [Gambas-user] gb.settings comments deleted

2014-12-05 Thread Lewis Balentine
*.conf appears to be similar to *.ini files found for decades on the the ms windows platform. I have always preferred them in that environment rather than the newfangled and nearly unmanageable windows registry. They allow one to modify the operation of a program without having to go change the

Re: [Gambas-user] gb.settings comments deleted

2014-12-05 Thread Benoît Minisini
Le 05/12/2014 15:18, Tobias Boege a écrit : > On Fri, 05 Dec 2014, Beno?t Minisini wrote: >> Le 05/12/2014 12:07, Lewis Balentine a ?crit : >>> When settings are written back to the ".conf" file all comments/remarks >>> are stripped from the file. >>> Should not the documentation include a warning

Re: [Gambas-user] gb.settings comments deleted

2014-12-05 Thread Tobias Boege
On Fri, 05 Dec 2014, Beno?t Minisini wrote: > Le 05/12/2014 12:07, Lewis Balentine a ?crit : > > When settings are written back to the ".conf" file all comments/remarks > > are stripped from the file. > > Should not the documentation include a warning to this effect? > > Yes. > > > Better yet wou

Re: [Gambas-user] gb.settings comments deleted

2014-12-05 Thread Benoît Minisini
Le 05/12/2014 12:07, Lewis Balentine a écrit : > When settings are written back to the ".conf" file all comments/remarks > are stripped from the file. > Should not the documentation include a warning to this effect? Yes. > Better yet would be to keep those comments/remarks intact. It's not reall

[Gambas-user] gb.settings comments deleted

2014-12-05 Thread Lewis Balentine
When settings are written back to the ".conf" file all comments/remarks are stripped from the file. Should not the documentation include a warning to this effect? Better yet would be to keep those comments/remarks intact. example incoming: [slot] ; remark # remark ; comment Value0ne =1 ValueTwo =