Re: Need 'UncommentAndSetValue' or some such

[Tim Nelson]

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, David Scott Coburn wrote:

> Brendan Strejcek wrote:
>
> > This is a commonly requested feature, check the archives for the
> > discussions.
> >
> > This is what I find myself doing these days:
> >
> >     editfiles:
> >         { /some/file
> >             DeleteLinesStarting "SomeVar" # Or Matching, whatever
> >             AppendIfNoSuchLine "SomeVar = SomeValue"
> >         }
> >
> > This is perfectly convergent because cfagent edits the file in a buffer
> > and then compares to contents on disk. If there is no difference, the
> > actual file is not touched.
>
> This is an improvement, but it would be nice if the edit did not move
> the line you are editing to the end of the file.  Usually there is some
> context of comments related to the variable you are setting.  The function
> which edits and sets the variable should not change this.  This makes it
> easier to look through the file if needed to find the line you are looking
> for, to see what the settings are, and to reference the information in the
> comments.

	Btw, my solution (which is all done via templates) is probably 
something like:

        ResetSearch 0
        LocateLineMatching "whatever"
        ReplaceLineWith "otherwhatever"
        CatchAbort      # Catches abort from LocateLineMatching, so you
                        # can put other editfiles stuff after

        But I'm never sure, because I just write

        <? ReplaceLineMatchingWith("whatever", "otherwhatever"); ?>

        ...and my perl templating does the rest.

        :)

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