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?
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