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Just never save the settings #2475

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Summary of the Pull Request

This is more trouble than it's worth. We had code before to re-serialize settings when they changed, to try and gracefully migrate settings from old schemas to new ones. This is good in theory, but with #754 coming soon, this is going to become a minefield. In the future we'll just always be providing a base schema that's reasonable, so this won't matter so much. Keys that users have that aren't understood will just be ignored, and that's fine.

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I tried changing "acrylicOpacity" to 0.9. When re-serialized, 0.9 becomes 0.8999grabage. This would have caused a re-format before, but no longer does :)

  This is more trouble than it's worth. We had code before to re-serialize
  settings when they changed, to try and gracefully migrate settings from old
  schemas to new ones. This is good in theory, but with #754 coming soon, this
  is going to become a minefield. In the future we'll just always be providing a
  base schema that's reasonable, so this won't matter so much. Keys that users
  have that aren't understood will just be ignored, and that's _fine_.
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🎉Windows Terminal Preview v0.4.2382.0 has been released which incorporates this pull request.:tada:

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trajano commented Sep 16, 2019

This actually causes issues in that the GUID if not specified is not saved.

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This PR represents the start of the work on Cascading User + default settings, #754.

Cascading settings will be done in two parts: 
* [ ] Layered Default+User settings (this PR)
* [ ] Dynamic Profile Generation (#2603).

Until _both_ are done, _neither are going in. The dynamic profiles PR will target this PR when it's ready, but will go in as a separate commit into master.

This PR covers adding one primary feature: the settings are now in two separate files:
* a static `defaults.json` that ships with the package (the "default settings")
* a `profiles.json` with the user's customizations (the "user settings)

User settings are _layered_ upon the settings in the defaults settings.

## References

Other things that might be related here:
* #1378 - This seems like it's definitely fixed. The default keybindings are _much_ cleaner, and without the save-on-load behavior, the user's keybindings will be left in a good state 
* #1398 - This might have honestly been solved by #2475 

## PR Checklist
* [x] Closes #754
* [x] Closes #1378 
* [x] Closes #2566
* [x] I work here
* [x] Tests added/passed
* [x] Requires documentation to be updated - it **ABSOLUTELY DOES**


## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments

1. We start by taking all of the `FromJson` functions in Profile, ColorScheme, Globals, etc, and converting them to `LayerJson` methods. These are effectively the same, with the change that instead of building a new object, they are simply layering the values on top of `this` object. 
2. Next, we add tests for layering properties like that.
3. Now, we add a `defaults.json` to the package. This is the file the users can refer to as our default settings.
4. We then take that `defaults.json` and stamp it into an auto generated `.h` file, so we can use it's data without having to worry about reading it from disk.
5. We then change the `LoadAll` function in `CascadiaSettings`. Now, the function does two loads - one from the defaults, and then a second load from the `profiles.json` file, layering the settings from each source upon the previous values.
6. If the `profiles.json` file doesn't exist, we'll create it from a hardcoded `userDefaults.json`, which is stamped in similar to how `defaults.json` is.
7. We also add support for _unbinding_ keybindings that might exist in the `defaults.json`, but the user doesn't want to be bound to anything.
8. We add support for _hiding_ a profile, which is useful if a user doesn't want one of the default profiles to appear in the list of profiles.

## TODO:
* [x] Still need to make Alt+Click work on the settings button
* [x] Need to write some user documentation on how the new settings model works
* [x] Fix the pair of tests I broke (re: Duplicate profiles)


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* Create profiles by layering them

* Update test to layer multiple times on the same profile

* Add support for layering an array of profiles, but break a couple tests

* Add a defaults.json to the package

* Layer colorschemes

  * Moves tests into individual classes
  * adds support for layering a colorscheme on top of another

* Layer an array of color schemes

* oh no, this was missed with #2481

  must have committed without staging this change, uh oh. Not like those tests actually work so nbd

* Layer keybindings

* Read settings from defaults.json + profiles.json, layer appropriately

  This is like 80% of #754. Needs tests.

* Add tests for keybindings

  * add support to unbind a key with `null` or `"unbound"` or `"garbage"`

* Layer or clear optional properties

* Add a helper to get an optional variable for a bunch of different types

  In the end, I think we need to ask _was this worth it_

* Do this with the stretch mode too

* Add back in the GUID check for profiles

* Add some tests for global settings layering

* M A D  W I T H  P O W E R

  Add a MsBuild target to auto-generate a header with the defaults.json as a
  string in the file. That way, we can _always_ load the defaults. Literally impossible to not.

* When the user's profile.json doesn't exist, create it from a template

* Re-order profiles to match the order set in the user's profiles.json

* Add tests for re-ordering profiles to match user ordering

* Add support for hiding profiles using `"hidden": true`

* Use the hardcoded defaults.json for the exception->"use defaults" case

* Somehow I messed up the git submodules?

* woo documentation

* Fix a Terminal.App.Unit.Tests failure

* signed/unsigned is hard

* Use Alt+Settings button to open the default settings

* Missed a signed/unsigned

* Some very preliminary PR feedback

* More PR feedback

  Use the wil helper for the exe path
  Move jsonutils into their own file
  kill some dead code

* Add templates to these bois

* remove some code for generating defaults, reorder defaults.json a tad

* Make guid a std::optional

* Large block of PR feedback

  * Remove some dead code
  * add some comments
  * tag some todos

* stl is love, stl is life

* add `-noprofile`

* Fix the crash that dustin found

* -Encoding ASCII

* Set a profile's default scheme to Campbell

* Fix the tests I regressed

* Update UsingJsonSetting.md to reflect that changes from these PRs

* Change how GenerateGuidForProfile works

* Make AppKeyBindings do its own serialization

* Remove leftover dead code from the previous commit

* Fix up an enormous number of PR nits

* Fix a typo; Update the defaults to match #2378

* Tiny nits

* Some typos, PR nits

* Fix this broken defaults case
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