On 3/21/2019 3:13 AM, Erik Auerswald wrote: > More general, table headers are useful for interactive use, but often need > to be ignored when the tool output is used programmatically. ---- I've noticed this as well -- maybe it would be smartest in addition to any other tool changes to have the default for interactive use, include headers, ..and have the the default for programmatic use set to suppress headers.
Of course you would like argue about hazards of changing defaults, and I would tend to agree -- and say it is something that could be set as a toggleable default in a tool-config file. The problem with my suggesting a config file as a separate feature apart from everything else is that it's utility cannot be justified by itself. It is in cases where you want to change default behaviors that a environmental config facility shows its worth.