[augeas-devel] multiline inifile values

[Kent Tenney]

Howdy,

from inifile.aug

"About: TODO
  Things to add in the future
  - Support double quotes in value
  - Support multiline values (is it standard?)"

I don't know if multiline values are standard or not,
but they are part of the Python configparser dialect of ini.
http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html

zc.buildout is a very widely used tool for managing
Python software installations, it is based on ini files
with multiline values. It would be great if Augeas
understood them. If I could provide a patch I would ...

Thanks,
Kent