ZDoom

Nash wrote:

Rachael wrote:Until you get into a habit of renaming your files .pk3_

W-who... would even do such a thing?!

there's also "disabledPath=" which will also keep the line and also provide a clearly visible guide as to what's enabled or not.

Lots of people do that to temporarily keep a file from being found.

Rachael wrote:Until you get into a habit of renaming your files .pk3_ :)

W-who... would even do such a thing?!

Until you get into a habit of renaming your files .pk3_

I just do it the ghetto way and add an underscore to any autoloads I'd like to temporarily disable, for example:

Path=./mods/Autoload/bmplus/bmplus_vanilla.pk3

becomes

Path=./mods/Autoload/bmplus/bmplus_vanilla.pk3_

Works for me. =P

Oh, so that's what you meant by

If you want to keep the content, instead rename their key from "Path" to something else.

You can already do that. Unknown sections with valid content are retained.

An alternative would be to have a "Disabled Autoloads" section of the cfg directly beneath it that you could move (with your text editor, which I assume is how people are adding autoloads) stuff to and from, that would be effectively ignored. But given how autoloads are subdivided by game, that could get a little complicated.

In a perfect world the config should be split up, using JSON for its internal data so that it can be stored in hierarcial fashion plus a user-visible extra file for these special sections. But that still won't help you because the config parser just skips over comments, never parsing what they contain.

I agree with Matt. I feel like there could be some sort of internal buffer for comments when a config file is loaded or something of that nature. I suppose another change would be the idea of bifurcating the config into different files (does the engine ever really modify the autoload section on its own?). Or really, it could be aware to some degree of the different sections etc.

too much work

I'd love to volunteer if I had the slightest idea what I'm supposed to be doing code-wise, so I'll just comment like this and hope someone out there takes the hint - being able to comment what stuff does in an ini file can be a huge QOL improvement for some people.

Alternatively, ZDL also exists.

The config file format has no way to retain the comments - they just get thrown away if the config is loaded. Ultimately this is too much work for too little gain.
If you want to keep the content, instead rename their key from "Path" to something else.

Issue description:
Using # to comment out a line under the autoload header in the configuration file causes GZDoom to remove the entry (upon launch?)

Reproduction steps:
* Add an entry under any Autoload section in the .ini file
* Comment out the entry using a # mark
* Launch the appropriate game
* Exit and check the configuration file again
* Note that the commented line has been deleted entirely

Suggested fix:
* Do not delete commented lines

Why is this an issue:
It's convenient to use comments to temporarily disable items in autoload to test when you have a problem. Frankly I did not expect the engine to delete them and was a little frustrated when I lost the contents of my autoload, lol.