Adding comments in Kobo eReader.conf file

Mrs_Often · 07-20-2018, 12:14 PM

Maybe a stupid question, but I don't recognise the language in the Kobo eReader.conf file and would like to add comments to it because I can't remember how some of the options work... Is it possible to add comments? Will comments need commenting out? With what character?

Thanks!

davidfor · 07-20-2018, 10:12 PM

It is the INI file format. I've never looked before, but the Wikipedia article says that semi-colons are used for comments. I'd expect this to work as they are probably using a library from somewhere. I rename entries a little bit if I want to turn them off. These stay in the file, so the comments will probably work.

Mrs_Often · 07-21-2018, 03:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by davidfor

It is the INI file format. I've never looked before, but the Wikipedia article says that semi-colons are used for comments. I'd expect this to work as they are probably using a library from somewhere. I rename entries a little bit if I want to turn them off. These stay in the file, so the comments will probably work.

Interesting! Thank you lots!

Mrs_Often · 08-01-2018, 09:50 AM

Update: semi-colon is indeed the correct character for adding comments to the config file... TextWrangler also recognises it. Comments save correctly.

However, after the device restarts, all comments disappear (and new feature settings that were added at the same time as the comments are still present).

Oh well.

EDIT: I just noticed the NightMode mod also uses ini file type for the configuration file, and it is full of comments, commented out with the # character. So I used # in the Kobo eReader.config file and success!

Interesting: if I leave the ; before the #, everything after and including the ; gets deleted...

07-20-2018, 12:14 PM	#1
Mrs_Often Wizard Posts: 1,775 Karma: 2694823 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: The Netherlands Device: Kobo Touch, Glo, Clara HD	Adding comments in Kobo eReader.conf file Maybe a stupid question, but I don't recognise the language in the Kobo eReader.conf file and would like to add comments to it because I can't remember how some of the options work... Is it possible to add comments? Will comments need commenting out? With what character? Thanks!

08-01-2018, 09:50 AM	#4
Mrs_Often Wizard Posts: 1,775 Karma: 2694823 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: The Netherlands Device: Kobo Touch, Glo, Clara HD	Update: semi-colon is indeed the correct character for adding comments to the config file... TextWrangler also recognises it. Comments save correctly. However, after the device restarts, all comments disappear (and new feature settings that were added at the same time as the comments are still present). Oh well. EDIT: I just noticed the NightMode mod also uses ini file type for the configuration file, and it is full of comments, commented out with the # character. So I used # in the Kobo eReader.config file and success! Interesting: if I leave the ; before the #, everything after and including the ; gets deleted... Last edited by Mrs_Often; 08-01-2018 at 10:15 AM.

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07-20-2018, 10:12 PM	#2
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,905 Karma: 47303822 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	It is the INI file format. I've never looked before, but the Wikipedia article says that semi-colons are used for comments. I'd expect this to work as they are probably using a library from somewhere. I rename entries a little bit if I want to turn them off. These stay in the file, so the comments will probably work.

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