On 10/11/05, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote:
On 10/11/05, Ben Fowler <ben.the.mole@...400...> wrote:
Are you sure that the console application should load user preferences?
You may be right, but I'm not prepared to guarantee that the console code never ever uses the prefs. It may still rely on something in some cases. This needs investigating. But in general I agree that it is annoying when a console app has something else that may affect its behavior, apart from the command line params that I give it.
That is very much my point. When using command line tool, I would expect it to take account of only what is on the command line or in referenced files. I think that bash and vim work like this, though they have non-trivial systems for setting user preferences and initial settings when used interactively.
I might even go so far as to make a policy specifically to eliminate use of the prefs., and to document this as being so.
Ben