From: mirai <mirai@makinata.eu>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>, 59712@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#59712] [DOCUMENTATION] [PATCH] doc: Suggest guile-readline and guile-colorized.
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2022 17:28:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0616d6b2-9182-ab51-f5d3-de63050e26b9@makinata.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfhirz85.fsf@gnu.org>
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---
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-28 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-30 2:23 [bug#59712] [PATCH] doc: Suggest guile-readline and guile-colorized mirai
2022-11-30 8:37 ` zimoun
2022-11-30 12:11 ` mirai
2022-12-02 18:59 ` mirai
2022-12-14 13:33 ` zimoun
2022-12-14 11:39 ` [bug#59712] [DOCUMENTATION] " Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-28 17:28 ` mirai [this message]
2022-12-30 14:37 ` zimoun
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