[open] Change saved vars file

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Originally Posted by Baertram Does ESO support shrinked lua files (removing all spaces where not needed?), like minimzed javascript files e.g.? Maybe one can even minimize the files of the SVs then (if you like to cuz it breaks readability).

Yes, the Lua interpreter in ESO does support a "shrunken" format. The language grammar itself does not set any requirements on the presence of whitespace beyond using a single whitespace character to separate two s-expressions.

Most programming languages that I've seen have no specific requirements for whitespace with python and makefiles being the most notable exceptions.

On an interesting side note: Code65536 and I encountered a bug (that we haven't seen again) where the saved variable files actually got written to disk without the formatting whitespace.