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Feature Request: Allow Users to Set Default Flags (Settings) via Configuration File #174

@Drew-Daniels

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@Drew-Daniels

Thanks a lot for making jless! I really enjoy using it for exploratory data analysis.

I prefer always setting relative line numbers when using jless and think it might be useful to be able to set "default" settings via a configuration file - something like ~/.config/jless/config.toml, where we could set default configuration settings in a way like:

[flags]
  relative_line_numbers = true

This way we wouldn't always need to pass flags when using jless with our preferred settings, like jless -r <file>, or create custom aliases to pass flags whenever we type a specific command, e.g., alias jless="jless -r".

As far as I can tell by looking through the user-guide there is not an ability to configure default settings via a configuration file.

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