dmerejkowsky / setconf

:green_book: Change configuration settings in text files

setconf

Setconf is a small utility for changing settings in configuration textfiles.

Patches are welcome.

Compile time features

• It can be compiled to native with nuitka. Try these parameters: --exe --lto --python-version=2.7

TODO

• -u option for uncommenting a key while setting the value (removing "# "). Should uncomment by default?
• -c option for commenting out a key (adding "# ") or changing a key while keeping it as commented out.
• A way to change only the n'th occurence of a configuration option
• Add support for changing values of "#define" and "(setq" as well?
• Rewrite in Go?
• An option for removing the configuration value instead of using ''.
• Optimize the code that is used for adding options with -a.
• A way to add an option with -a after a given string occurs.
• An option for removing both the key and the value.
• Test and fix the combination of -a and multiline markers.
• Fix the behavior when " is the multiline marker and ":" the delimiter. (the yml format)
• Refactor

Changes from 0.7 to 0.7.1

• Removed a dependency on chardet

Changes from 0.6.8 to 0.7

• Fix issue #6, a failing testcase for +=.

Changes from 0.6.7 to 0.6.8

• Deal mainly with bytes instead of strings.
• Handle ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) better, for Python 3.

Changes from 0.6.6 to 0.6.7

• Can use floating point numbers together with += and -=

Changes from 0.6.5 to 0.6.6

• Fixed a problem with files without newline endings

Changes from 0.6.4 to 0.6.5

• Can now use += or -= for increasing or decreasing integer values

Changes from 0.6.3 to 0.6.4

• Better error messages when write permissions are denied

Changes from 0.6.2 to 0.6.3

• Fixed a problem with -a that occurred when a key existed but was commented out
• Added regression test

Changes from 0.6.1 to 0.6.2

• Now runs on Python 2 and Python 3 (tested with 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7 and 3.3)

Changes from 0.6 to 0.6.1

• Fixed a problem with the -a option
• Creates the file when -a or --add is given, if needed

Changes from 0.5.3 to 0.6

• Made -a add options only when not already present

Changes from 0.5.2 to 0.5.3

• Made it compile with the latest version of shedskin
• Added an option -a for adding keys/values to a file

Changes from 0.5.1 to 0.5.2

• Fixed a problem with ascii/utf-8 encoding

Changes from 0.5 to 0.5.1

• Fixed a problem with => assignments
• Changed the way files are opened with open()
• Added more tests relating to ascii/utf-8

Changes from 0.4 to 0.5

• Add support for => as well
• Fixed a bug where comments were not ignored for multiline values
• New logo

Changes from 0.3.2 to 0.4 (released)

• Ignored configuration options that are commented out

General information

• License: GPL2
• Author: Alexander F Rødseth