MINOR: config: support default values for environment variables

Sometimes it is really useful to be able to specify a default value for
an optional environment variable, like the ${name-value} construct in
shell. In fact we're really missing this for a number of settings in
reg tests, starting with timeouts.

This commit simply adds support for the common syntax above. Other
common forms like '+' to replace existing variables, or ':-' and ':+'
to act on empty variables, were not implemented at this stage, as they
are less commonly needed.
diff --git a/src/tools.c b/src/tools.c
index 8fc6716..5d8483d 100644
--- a/src/tools.c
+++ b/src/tools.c
@@ -5440,13 +5440,27 @@
 			}
 
 			if (brace) {
-				if (*in != '}') {
+				if (*in == '-') {
+					/* default value starts just after the '-' */
+					if (!value)
+						value = in + 1;
+
+					while (*in && *in != '}')
+						in++;
+					if (!*in)
+						goto no_brace;
+					*in = 0; // terminate the default value
+				}
+				else if (*in != '}') {
+				no_brace:
 					/* unmatched brace */
 					err |= PARSE_ERR_BRACE;
 					if (errptr)
 						*errptr = brace;
 					goto leave;
 				}
+
+				/* brace found, skip it */
 				in++;
 				brace = NULL;
 			}