It may seem different to Windows users. Setting environment variables on
Windows is a pain.

fre 6 jan. 2017 kl. 22:12 skrev John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>:

> +++ Matthew Pickering [Jan 06 17 18:42 ]:
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> >Communicating arguments though env vars is very ad-hoc, an option
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> I still haven't understood the case against using
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> environment variables.  In what way are they "ad hoc"?
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> They are pretty standardly used to communicate options to
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> 'make', for example.
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> It's just about the same effort to write
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>     MYARG=blah pandoc --filter foo
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> as to write
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>     pandoc -filter foo --filter-args blah
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> And an added advantage of environment variables is that
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> you can set them once and then not have to repeat.
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