<div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Free Ekanayaka <<a href="mailto:free@64studio.com">free@64studio.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi Raphaël, <div class="Ih2E3d"> |--==> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:42:05 +0200, "Raphaël Pinson" <<a href="mailto:raphink@gmail.com">raphink@gmail.com</a>> said: >> >>If introducing ugly _noindent declarations is the only viable way at >>the moment, but it makes inifile.aug enough flexible to deal with all >>kind of INI files, then I would go for it. Of course Better >>alternatives are welcome. >> </div> RP> Just saw another reason for not introducing indent in inifile.aug : some RP> inifiles use indentation for multi-line values, like RP> key = this is a long RP> text that belongs RP> to the same field RP> This kind of entries are very tricky to deal with (this is why I haven't put RP> my hands on it yet) because ideally we would like to get RP> { "key" = "this is a long\ntext that belongs\nto the same field" } RP> but all I can think of getting is RP> { "key" RP> { "1" = "this is a long" } RP> { "2" = "text that belongs" } RP> { "3" = "to the same field" } } RP> or RP> { "key" = "this is a long\n text taht belongs\n to the same field" } RP> which forces users to indent their value in a not very useful way. RP> Furthermore, I believe adding a line to such a field should use the same RP> indentation as the previous lines, which is currently not possible in RP> augeas. I see your point, I think I have no other option than cloning inifile.aug then, and possibly wait for this kind of issues to get eventually fixed. </blockquote><div> Well you can clone the minimal parts of the lenses that you need to refine. This is what I do in mysql.aug for example (see patch from a few hours ago) since I need to support flags aswell as key/value pairs. ++ Raphaël </div></div> </div>