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Have a look at https://comby.dev/docs/configuration#toml-format. Going to close this issue since this will be the general file configuration format for now. Open any other suggestions/desires in a new issue based on this currently supported configuration format.

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I'm adding a way to read patterns using a TOML file in #189. Documentation to follow.

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Sorry for the delay in response, I was ill and in bed all last week :(

Specifying generate.py instead of -f generate.py didn't work and complained about missing match and rewrite templates.

Ah, right. That's because some confusion happens with -templates and the anonymous arguments (-f exists to be used with templates). This issue is related to #161. When fixed, you should be able to specify just generate.py without the -f.

In general, if you have an idea to make specifying multiple templates easier (or think that the .comby format you mentioned above will improve things), then I'll keep this open to track a possible solution.

I did't find @@ self-explanatory or intuitive enough

I feel the same.

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Basically it can simplify applying of subset of https://github.com/comby-tools/sample-catalog

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Yeah, agree this is a bit painful. Part of the intention is to separate the inputs so that escaping/metasyntax isn't needed to delineate/separate the match and rewrite templates. That said, agree it should be possible to specify these in a single file somehow.

spatch format is another way of achieving this, and also allows shorter templates by deduplicating common parts. See related issue #149 and http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/sp.php. What do you think of that format?

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@rvantonder maybe that's not that important when it is possible to specify a path to a template dir. The problem was to discover the right syntax.

comby -templates catalogue/Python2 -d . -f generate.py

Specifying generate.py instead of -f generate.py didn't work and complained about missing match and rewrite templates.

For spatch I did't find @@ self-explanatory or intuitive enough. I've heard about coccinelle before, and still without sufficient background terms like kinds of collateral evolutions escape my understanding, so I don't know how it is supposed to apply those patches. Maybe they should not invert the meaning of green and red colors at http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/sp.php

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No pressure. Feeling well should always be a top priority. ,)

As for the workflow improvement, reading template dir from a .zip archive can be more convenient for sharing the rules. The https://comby.live/ can also provide an option to import/export them. Even in uncompressed .zip

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I like the zip idea!

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An example would be nice.

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