node-sgc

An node module to read and write Synergy's configuration file format

This is pretty much only useful if you're writing an interface to Synergy.

Run

1. Have Node.js

2. Run npm install in the project directory

3. Run npm test in the project directory

Usage

Are you writing an interface to Synergy?

Really? Are you sure?

Okay... I mean, if you are writing an interface to Synergy, then this could be very helpful, but chances are you're only continuing reading this because, I suppose, it's more conversational than most README documents.

At any rate, there's SGC.parse and SGC.stringify, mimicking the JSON API.

var SGC = require("SGC");
var fs = require("fs");
var config = SGC.parse(fs.readFileSync("synergy-config.sgc", "utf8"));
console.log(config.screens, config.links, config.aliases, config.options);
fs.writeFileSync("synergy-config.sgc", SGC.stringify(config), {encoding: "utf8"}));

Both functions may throw errors.

Metadata Retention (:lock_with_ink_pen:)

It tries to retain your preferred formatting a bit. It stores the first indentation it finds in config.meta.tab and uses that later if you stringify it.

It also preserves some comments, sometimes in the wrong places.

It can't be perfect. The file changes.

After all, sometimes you don't want it to retain a comment, for example if you change the switch delay, this comment becomes outdated:

switchDelay = 500 # half of a second

I think it would be awesome if someone started work on a comprehensive system for loading, modifying, and saving structured documents while retaining as much metadata and formatting as possible.

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