Multiple --conf options in calling dosbox-x via CLI

[hadjiprocopis]

The manual says:

-conf configfile
           Start dosbox-x with the options specified in configfile. This file
           may also have a section called [autoexec] in which you can put
           commands you wish to execute on startup. Multiple -conf options
           with configfiles can be specified and they will be overlaid on each
           other.

I have discovered that the way it is overlaid is that if there exist, say, 2 config files on the CLI and both have the same section, say [ne2000] then those parameters specified in the 1st config file will be overwritten by those that may exist in the 2nd config file (under said section). So, if the 1st has ne2000=true and the 2nd (the one later in the command-line) has ne2000=false then the 2nd prevails: ne2000=false .

HOWEVER. if (by accident or after many cycles of experimentation or plain incompetence) I comment the parameter in the 2nd config file. Then, the parameter in the 1st file will be read and then all (uncommented) parameters in the 2nd file.

I personally find this mix+match as cause for accidental behaviour and hours of debugging (and forum questions).

I propose that multiple config files are allowed on the command line. But if a section (even if empty) exists in the 2nd config file, then the all the parameters under this same section in the 1st config file are ignored. In a few words, multiple config options are still allowed but they work on the section level and not on the parameter-under-each-section level.

Of course this is a proposal based on what I personally consider "normal behaviour" (and also because I spent 4 hours trying to debug networking not working when I separated the config files :) ).

Thank you for the excellent software you are providing us