Re: [Weechat-support] Prevent WeeChat from overwriting its own configuration files

[Sébastien Helleu]

On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 10:04:44PM +0200, Jérémie Roquet wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Everytime I start weechat, it overwrites its own configuration files
> (~/.weechat/*.conf) and even re-generates the ones I've deleted there.
> 
> Which means I'm unable to start with a minimal configuration
> (customized settings only for the few I fully understand and want to
> differ from the default; “sane default” settings of the last release
> of weechat for everything else).
> 
> Setting “weechat.look.save_config_on_exit” to “off” doesn't change
> anything (which comes as expected, since the files are overwritten on
> startup, not when exiting).
> 
> The workaround I'm currently using is a “chmod u-w ~/.weechat”, but
> that doesn't seem right and is obviously inconvenient when I want to
> edit my configuration (and I'd like to avoid depending on SELinux for
> something as simple).
> 
> Is there any way to prevent this behavior? If there isn't any yet,
> would a patch to add such feature have a chance to get merged in?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> -- 
> Jérémie
> 

Hi Jérémie,

Instead of deleting config files, you can create empty files.
On startup, config files are created only if they are not found.

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Sébastien Helleu

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