From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: Perl modules Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 13:41:27 +0200 Message-ID: <20140511114127.GA8798@debian> References: <20140511085638.GA15275@debian> <87y4y8sksl.fsf@gnu.org> <20140511103053.GA2361@debian> <87ppjksgan.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55420) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WjS8R-00014m-Bo for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 May 2014 07:41:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WjS8J-0004Im-Sg for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 May 2014 07:41:39 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87ppjksgan.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-15?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 01:31:12PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > But there’s no tool that really “interprets” of what’s in the > ‘description’ field[*]. What do you mean? > [*] Actually, ‘fill-paragraph’ from (guix ui), which is used for the > output of ‘guix package --search’ does some very basic > interpretation. Well, the output of "guix package --search" has different line breaks than those present in the string of the description field. So something modifies it, maybe the scheme interpreter itself in what it does with multi-line strings, maybe the function you mention. In any case, "x.\nY" may be output as "x. Y"; so if we wish to have double spaces in the output, we need to write "x. Y" on the same line. Andreas