Sort engine entries in searx/settings.yml alphabetically by name

[thunder-coding]

Currently this is a giant mess, which makes it really difficult to decide where a new engine should go. Sorting it by name can help improve it.

[return42]

May we should isolate them in a separated file engines.yml .. and switch to less error-prone engines.toml / The yaml document from hell

[unixfox]

OK at first to sort the subentries of each section.

Not the order of each section because some of these are purposefully placed at the top of the file for a reason.

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May we should isolate them in a separated file engines.yml .. and switch to less error-prone engines.toml / The yaml document from hell

We could do like the helm tool, allow to specify the configuration in the yaml files that you want.

This way we keep the backwards compatibility but allow for more organized yaml files: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51097553/can-i-have-multiple-values-yaml-files-for-helm

I do not agree on moving to an entirely new format though. YAML is fine for our usecase and I'm more towards not breaking existing installations.

[dalf]

I do not agree on moving to an entirely new format though. YAML is fine for our usecase and I'm more towards not breaking existing installations.

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[thunder-coding]

Not the order of each section because some of these are purposefully placed at the top of the file for a reason.

I specifically wanted to draw attention towards unsorted engines. Unsorted other options are fine and should continue to be as is so that commonly used options are easy to discover. I'm modifying my issue title to reflect the same

[dalf]

pip install ruamel.yaml

from ruamel.yaml import YAML


def parse(settings):
    settings["engines"].sort(key=lambda e: e["name"])


def main():
    yaml=YAML()
    with open("searx/settings.yml", 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
        settings = yaml.load(f)
    parse(settings)
    with open("settings_new.yml", "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
        yaml.dump(settings, f)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

result:
https://gist.github.com/dalf/4ccd6bfb74678f2aa7b01d96dc44400f

It does not sort the commented engines

ping @thunder-coding @return42 @unixfox