On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 02:32:25PM -0500, Greg Reagle wrote: > I just had a thought that might be of interest to fans of the suckless > philosophy. > > It occurred to me that environment variables can be used to configure a > program, instead of programming in a parser or extension language into a > program. Are there any reasons not to just use environment variables? > Then a rc file could just be a shell script that sets environment > variables. Do you know of any programs that do this? I assume there > are disadvantages, but what?
Another down-side is that different shells use different syntax for setting and unsetting environment variables, which can be a PITA if you want to share your configuration.
