PfSense Developer Shell - $config always seems to be empty?

[Briantist]

Every time I try to use the developer shell, $config appears to be empty. I've even tried examples straight from the help.

echo $config;
exec

print_r($config);
exec

parse_config(true);
print_r($config);
exec

All of these output nothing. I've tried it on several 2.0 machines, embedded, full installs, etc. I just tried it on 1.2.3 and I got the same thing. I must be doing something wrong, or missing something. I get the feeling that I'm going to feel really dumb when I find out why this isn't working..

[Briantist]

I figured it out by looking at one of the pre-recorded macros.

global $config;

This isn't in the help or documentation anywhere.. I guess I'm the only person who ever got tripped up on it though!