On July 2, 2018 10:28:01 PM GMT+02:00, Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> wrote:
>Maxim Cournoyer (2018-07-02 10:55 -0400) wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>>> - Perform transactions (install/remove) over multiple packages.
>>>>>
>>>>> To be fair, I think you can already accomplish this using
>emacs-guix by
>>>>> separating with commas multiple package names :).
>>>>
>>>> Can you explain?  I don't know how to do that.
>>>>
>>>> The point of the Helm interface is that it allows to "batch select"
>>>> multiple packages.  I don't think that emacs-guix can do that.
>>>
>>> […]
>>>
>>> Another way in ‘M-x guix-all-packages’ or any ‘guix-search-by-*’:
>>>
>>>   • Hit ‘i’ on not installed packages.
>>>   • Hit ‘d’ on installed package.
>>>   • Hit ‘x’ to apply.
>>
>> Thanks Oleg! I keep forgetting about this interface;
>
>he-he, it is only one of about 10 different interfaces of this kind
>(for
>packages, profiles, generations, services, etc.).  If you use only "M-x
>guix", you miss most of Emacs-Guix features.
>
>> there doesn't seem
>> to be an entry point from M-x guix for easy discovery.
>
>"M-x guix" can't be an entry point for this or any other interface, it
>is only for "guix" *shell* commands.  Actually I'm very surprised
>someone uses "M-x guix", I find it unpractical.  I even plan to rename
>it to "M-x guix-command", and to make "M-x guix" a real entry point for
>the various Emacs-Guix commands (including "guix-command" and all the
>interfaces).
>
>-- 
>Alex

Good idea! 
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