Feature Request: Contribute commands with additional arguments

Hello, I’m creating an extension to provide easily accessible documentation shortcuts from the command palette in the editor. Currently it does not seem possible to do something like this (where otherArg would be an arbitrary argument in package.json):

    "contributes": {
        "commands": [
            {
                "command": "extension.doSomething",
                "title": "Example Title",
                "otherArg": "some other argument"
            }
        ]
    },

I see that a similar question has been asked here https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/26436 and also in a resulting (unanswered) SO post here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43909741/can-i-pass-arguments-to-command-in-contributes-block.

Is this a feature that would be considered? If not, how might this type of thing be accomplished from the extension developer’s perspective? I see there is an args parameter for command handler functions, but I’m not seeing a way to call executeCommand from the package.json file.

For reference, here is a screenshot of how my equivalent package looks in the command palette in sublime text:

Thanks!

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[jrieken]

I believe @bpasero has done that, right?