Writing to config results in reformatting

[MikeBauerCA]

This applies to Zowe CLI and Zowe Explorer. When the technology itself writes to the config, it reformats the config file. This is a bit annoying for users in the case that they prefer their own formatting style. At a minimum, it is unexpected. Our formatting results in many new lines and some may prefer a more dense format.

Possible format:

"profiles": {
                "lpar1": {"type": "zosmf","properties": {"host": "myhost.com"}}
            },

Our reformatting results in:

"profiles": {
                "lpar1": {
                    "type": "zosmf",
                    "properties": {
                        "host": "myhost.com"
                    }
                }
            }

If there were many lpars as was a recent case with a customer, you can see how the original format may be easier to maintain.

Can we write to the file without modifying the format?

[zFernand0]

It might be possible 😋 Are we reformatting in order to preserve comments (e.g. if the user switched defaults by un-/commenting profiles) ? 🤔

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