Feature suggestion: Introduce environment variable TABTAB_AUTO_PATH

[yeonghoey]

TL;DR

How about providing TABTAB_AUTO_PATH option as an environment variable? When it's defined, --auto installs/uninstalls its generated content into $TABTAB_AUTO_PATH.

Long Story

I usually use zsh but also use bash in times and manage them under a git repo. They only contain common settings and I put all the other local system dependent settings into ~/.localrc.

As a result, my .bashrc and .zshrc both have following lines:

if [[ -f "$HOME/.localrc" ]]; then
  source "$HOME/.localrc"
fi

(It seems, as a matter of fact, that people who maintain their own dotfiles repos use patterns like this.)

Accordingly, I hope that every time I install some node packages which use tabtab, I want tabtab generated contents to be placed in .localrc.

[mklabs]

That's definitely something we can do. I like the idea.

Would you like to give it a try ? I would be more than happy to merge a PR implementing this. I can guide you through. I unfortunately don't have the time atm to work on this.

I'll eventually implement something similar, thanks for the feedback 👍

[yeonghoey]

It's a good thing you like the idea. But, currently I don't have any practical node.js experience, and even though I think this thing is an excellent opportunity for getting some, I think I cannot afford to work on it by now. I'll update here when I get some free time to work on this.

[mklabs]

No worries. I'll do my best to try remedy the issue