On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 09:28:33PM +0100, Nick wrote: > Quoth Roberto E. Vargas Caballero: > > I also need this feature, but maybe could be done in other way. I talked > > about this with other persons of the list, and we liked let st be configured > > using the stdin of st, so you can do it something like: > > > > configurator | st > > > > And, for example, you could use dmenu and select the font you want to use. > > Eugh. That isn't the way anything else is configured. It's a pretty > weird interface. config.h, argv switches and potentially keybindings > are reasonable ways to configure programs. stdin is just silly. >
What's wrong with environment variables?