[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[bug#59712] [DOCUMENTATION] [PATCH] doc: Suggest guile-readline and guil
From: |
mirai |
Subject: |
[bug#59712] [DOCUMENTATION] [PATCH] doc: Suggest guile-readline and guile-colorized. |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Dec 2022 17:28:45 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.6.0 |
On 2022-12-14 11:39, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi!
>
> mirai@makinata.eu skribis:
>
>> From: Bruno Victal <mirai@makinata.eu>
>>
>> Allows for a smoother experience with './pre-inst-env guix repl'.
>>
>> * doc/contributing.texi (Building from Git): Suggest guile-readline and
>> guile-colorized.
>
> Is this the right place? Currently both are recommended under “Using
> Guix Interactively”, which I think is more appropriate. But maybe we
> should add a cross-reference?
>
> To complement what zimoun wrote, the ‘.guile’ skeleton (that new home
> directories get by default) enables both when they’re installed.
>
> All in all, I’m not sure anything’s missing.
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
# have both guile-colorized or guile-readline already installed either via
config.scm or guix install
$ guix shell -D guix help2man git strace --pure
~/src/guix [env]$
# perform ./bootstrap, configure and make
~/src/guix [env]$ ./pre-inst-env guix repl
scheme@(guix-user)> ;; does not have guile-colorized or guile-readline
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
The inconvenient part here being having to do:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
CTRL-D
$ guix shell -D guix help2man git strace guile-colorized guile-readline --pure
~/src/guix [env]$
# continue with whatever task was being done before
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---