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Allow some env vars to override config variables, but not command line arguments #2381

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@aaronkollasch aaronkollasch commented Oct 25, 2022

Giving #1281 a go.

This PR allows certain environment variables to take precedence over config settings, while allowing them to be overridden by their respective command line flags.

It does this by formatting those variables as a vector of command line args, and then inserting them between the config variables and command line args in App::matches(). Parsing the env variables in that way allows some env variable-specific code in App to be removed as well.

Right now, the env variables I picked are BAT_TABS, BAT_THEME, BAT_PAGER, and BAT_STYLE as I think those make the most sense to replace. It is straightforward to add more if needed. Note that BAT_PAGER takes precedence over config variables, but PAGER does not.

Also adds tests for the cache subcommand to make sure the changes don't break it (e.g. by inserting flags before cache).

Fixes #1152

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What an excellent PR. Good description, a ChangeLog entry, useful and sensible unit tests. And a really cool idea for implementing this feature that I hadn't thought of. Thank you very much!

Added some minor remarks as inline comments.

aaronkollasch and others added 9 commits November 2, 2022 16:48
Treat the cache subcommand differently from --no-config:
For --no-config, insert args from selected environment variables
For cache, don't insert args
Co-authored-by: David Peter <sharkdp@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: David Peter <sharkdp@users.noreply.github.com>
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aaronkollasch commented Nov 2, 2022

Thank you for reviewing @sharkdp! I'm happy with how this one came together.

Should be ready to go.

@sharkdp sharkdp merged commit 78a67ac into sharkdp:master Nov 2, 2022
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sharkdp commented Nov 2, 2022

Thank you for the updates!

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Env var should take precedence over config
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