From 4e021bc14ba98fac5c037b2219dfca7386ea62c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Kelling <iank@fsf.org>
Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 21:39:00 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] make section placement stable. slightly less verbose output

---
 cedit | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cedit b/cedit
index 60bb471..dfee11d 100755
--- a/cedit
+++ b/cedit
@@ -67,21 +67,19 @@ section. cedit is short for config edit.
   [[ -w $file ]] || s=sudo
 
 
+  local in_section=false
   if $exists; then
+    local tailn=1
     local temp="$(mktemp -d)/$file_name"
     cp "$file" "$temp"
     cp /dev/null "$file"
-    local in_section=false
     while IFS= read -r line; do
-      if [[ $line == $begin ]]; then
+      tailn=$(( tailn + 1 ))
+      if [[ $line == "$begin" ]]; then
         in_section=true;
+        break
       fi
-      if ! $in_section; then
-        printf '%s\n' "$line" >> $file
-      fi
-      if [[ $line == $end ]]; then
-        in_section=false;
-      fi
+      printf '%s\n' "$line" >> $file
     done < "$temp"
   fi
 
@@ -93,6 +91,21 @@ section. cedit is short for config edit.
     $s tee -a "$file" >/dev/null <<<"$end"
   fi
 
+  if $exists && $in_section; then
+    while IFS= read -r line; do
+      if [[ $line == "$begin" ]]; then
+        in_section=true;
+      fi
+      if ! $in_section; then
+        printf '%s\n' "$line" >> $file
+      fi
+      if [[ $line == $end ]]; then
+        in_section=false;
+      fi
+    done < <(tail -n +$tailn "$temp")
+  fi
+
+
   if ! $exists; then
     ret=1
     if $verbose; then
@@ -106,8 +119,8 @@ section. cedit is short for config edit.
       echo "backup of original at $temp"
       echo diff -u "$temp" "$file":
       echo "$diff"
-    elif $verbose; then
-      echo "No changes made to $file"
+      #elif $debug; then
+      #  echo "No changes made to $file"
     fi
   else
     # for systems like openwrt which don't have diff
-- 
2.30.2