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bug#31652: Use of ‘keymap’ vs. ‘layout’ in manual
From: |
Alex Kost |
Subject: |
bug#31652: Use of ‘keymap’ vs. ‘layout’ in manual |
Date: |
Wed, 30 May 2018 12:05:26 +0300 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) |
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice (2018-05-30 05:49 +0200) wrote:
> Guix,
>
> Grepping the manual for ‘keyboard layout’ will get you to section
> 6.1.4.1 (setting the layout temporarily during installation using
> loadkeys), but not 6.2.7.1 where you might learn about using
> console-keymap-service to make the change permanent.
>
> This bug is a reminder to myself to replace at least one occurrence of
> ‘keymap’ with the common term.
Do you mean ‘layout’ is the common term? "man loadkeys" mentions
"layout" only once, and "keymap" a lot.
I think we can just put a reference to that section. Maybe like this:
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 09749b15e..02425e791 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -8418,7 +8418,9 @@ loadkeys dvorak
See the files under @file{/run/current-system/profile/share/keymaps} for
a list of available keyboard layouts. Run @command{man loadkeys} for
-more information.
+more information. After installing GuixSD, you can set your default
+keyboard layout with @code{console-keymap-service} (@pxref{Base
+Services}).
@subsubsection Networking
--
Alex