How to replace without delete

[David Glover-Aoki]

The readme says this:

"In fact you can actually turn off deletion all together and just have lorem ipsum"

but it doesn't explain how, and I can't find anything in shreddit.yml about replacing without deleting.

How do you do that?

[an]

Hi DavidCWGA,

In the file shreddit.yml.example, on line 68, you can enter your own custom string here.

[Joshua Abu]

It seems there used to be an "edit only" option in the yml but it was removed for some reason.

I would also like to know how to only edit and not delete.

[Lester Covax]

You could try commenting out all three instances of self._remove(item), but I haven't tested that.

Shreddit/shreddit/shredder.py

Lines 158 to 171 in f4a5b67

     self._remove(item) 
 elif created <= self._nuke_cutoff: 
     self._logger.debug("Item occurs prior to nuke cutoff") 
     count_removed += 1 
     self._remove(item) 
 elif self._check_whitelist(item): 
     self._logger.debug("Skipping due to: whitelisted") 
     continue 
 elif created > self._recent_cutoff: 
     self._logger.debug("Skipping due to: too recent") 
     continue 
 else: 
     count_removed += 1 
     self._remove(item) 

That, or you could add back in the references for edit_only from an older commit.

Shreddit/shreddit/shredder.py

Line 123 in 94734b3

 if self._edit_only: