REQUEST: add option to preserve comments about ini

[gavinengel]

+1 I'd like this all well. Basically what I want is a way to make simple edits to ini/cnf files on the Linux CLI. I want to ensure that comments are retained. Perhaps using this method: http://fadefade.com/json-comments.html or perhaps into cson?

By the way, if you change the # in the ini file to a \# with backslash before it, it sortof retains the comments, but it still outputs them messy with a =true at the end. If you can remove the =true at the end this could be the start of a quick way to deal with this stuff.

[exse2]

hello person from 2014.
just use this and call it a day:

npm install --save --no-package-lock --unsafe-perm=true ini-api

  import fs from 'fs';
  import iniApi from 'ini-api';
  const Ini = iniApi.Ini;
  
  (async () => {
	  let text = fs.readFileSync('/etc/systemd/journald.conf', 'utf-8');
	  let ini = new Ini(text);
	  ini.getSection('Journal').setValue('Storage', 'persistent');
	  fs.writeFileSync('./config_modified.ini', ini.stringify())
  })();

it retains comments.

[wraithgar]

If this is still something folks need feel free to submit a PR implementing the feature.