If you check the man pages of some linux commands you will see that
there is a place where it talks about ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES or something
similar where it describes some variables than can modify the way a
command works.
As long as we can "register" the options help like this:
{"label", 'l', 0, "search devices by a filesystem label", 0, 0},
{"set", 's', GRUB_ARG_OPTION_OPTIONAL, "set a variable to the first
device found", "VAR", ARG_TYPE_STRING},
why shouldn't we do a similar thing for variables?
I think a command should be able to register a:
variable name
- to set or not a value for this variable
- to put a description for the variable
so that when querying a command help this variable help also shows.
And when querying "help variable" we see all the commands help about
this variable.
Let's see an example.
cat
defines this variable pager help:
"1: Stops at each screen. 0: Do not stop."
randomcolourcat
defines this variable pager help:
"1: Stops at each screen. 0: Do not stop."
find
defines this variable pager help:
"1: Stops at each screen. 0: Do not stop."
So if you type "help cat" apart from you see right now you see also:
"1: Stops at each screen. 0: Do not stop."
And if you type "help variable pager" you should see:
cat: "1: Stops at each screen. 0: Do not stop."
randomcolourcat: "1: Stops at each screen. 0: Do not stop."
find: "1: Stops at each screen. 0: Do not stop."
It's a stupid example but that's I mean.
adrian15
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