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+--- A wrapper to simultaniously handle global and world settings.
+
+-- Initialize settings container
+local weac = worldeditadditions_core
+weac.settings = {}
+
+-- Initialize wea world folder if not already existing
+local path = minetest.get_worldpath() .. "/worldeditadditions"
+minetest.mkdir(path)
+
+-- @class
+local setting_handler = {}
+
+--- Reads world settings into WEA core settings object
+setting_handler.read = function()
+	local file, err = io.open(path .. "/settings.conf", "rb")
+	if err then return false end
+	-- Split by newline
+	local settings = wea_c.split(file.read(),"[\n\r]+")
+end
+
+--- Write setting to world settings
+setting_handler.write = function(setting, state)
+	local writer, err = io.open(path .. "/settings.conf", "ab")
+	if not writer then
+		return false
+	elseif setting == "" and not state then
+		writer:write("")
+	else
+		writer:write("worldeditadditions_" .. setting .. " = " .. state .. "\n")
+	end
+	writer:flush()
+	writer:close()
+	return true
+end
+
+-- Test for world settings and generate file if none
+if not setting_handler.read() then
+	setting_handler.write("")
+end
+
+return setting_handler
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