Hi Peter,

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Peter Münster wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Hey, it's really fun to code in lua: pattern matching, easy table
> manipulation and so on, I should have learned it earlier!

Looks interesting.

> Since it's my first experience with lua, I would like to ask you for
> comments on the t-inifile.tex module, attached to this message.
>
> I tried to implement a demo-mode, but there are two small problems:
> - I don't know how to use \savebuffer, all line-endings disappear in the
>  saved file

You can do something like

\startbuffer[thewho]
contents of the ini file
\stopbuffer

This will create a file \jobname-thewho.tmp which you can then read.

Aditya