Hi Nishant, You can set general->auto-save-config to false to prevent qutebrowser from saving to the config file on exit.
There are also plans to completely revamp the config format: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/499 Work on this will hopefully begin soon! -Ryan On Sun 04/02/17 02:52PM, Nishant Rodrigues wrote: > Heya, > > I'd like to manage the changes I make to qutebowser's config manually, with > comments that help understand > why I added a setting (rather than what it does) so that a few months down > the line I understand what workflows > I had in mind for changing that setting. > > While I could just copy the configuration I've stored in my dot-files repo > manually each time I start the browser I'd rather not have behavior > specific to qutebrowser. > Is there a way to prevent automatic writing to the main configuration file? > If not, would you'll accept patches that allow this behaviour? > > What modifications are made to the configuration when it's written to? > > Thanks, > Nishant
