From: Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherine.e@gmail.com>
To: adriano <randomlooser@riseup.net>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Guix Documentation Meetup
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2022 09:58:06 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dbcvott.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <363f0c07c5d49eac83006c628e9b8aad461650e0.camel@riseup.net> (adriano's message of "Thu, 30 Dec 2021 22:52:39 +0100")
adriano <randomlooser@riseup.net> writes:
> Il giorno dom, 12/12/2021 alle 21.50 -0600, Katherine Cox-Buday ha scritto:
>> - In geiser, run =,a thing-i-want-to-look-for= (this is supposedly an
>> apropos command that is supposed to search symbols for you). The command
>> returns nothing.
> about this, I want to report an example
>
> scheme@(guile-user)> (help tail)
> Did not find any object named `tail'
> scheme@(guile-user)>
>
> BUT
>
> scheme@(guile-user)> (help "tail") <-- notice the quotation marks !
> Documentation found for:
> That is, help with the quotation marks reports about things even if
> they're in namespaces you haven't imported yet !
Thank you very much for the tip! I will definitely be trying this next time I'm hacking on Guile!
--
Katherine
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-06 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-10 22:40 Guix Documentation Meetup Blake Shaw
2021-12-10 23:18 ` Ryan Prior
2021-12-11 18:55 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
[not found] ` <87lf0q2m7n.fsf@nonconstructivism.com>
2021-12-13 3:50 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2021-12-30 21:52 ` adriano
2022-01-06 15:58 ` Katherine Cox-Buday [this message]
2021-12-13 8:29 ` zimoun
2021-12-14 16:01 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2021-12-14 17:38 ` Luis Felipe
2021-12-14 17:52 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2021-12-20 17:45 ` Guile documentation Ludovic Courtès
2021-12-21 11:01 ` Blake Shaw
2021-12-21 6:41 ` Guix Documentation Meetup adriano
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-03-10 17:02 Raghav Gururajan
2022-03-10 17:11 ` Raghav Gururajan
[not found] <mailman.34870.1641617883.18145.guix-devel@gnu.org>
2022-01-08 8:42 ` calcium
2022-01-08 11:35 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-01-08 11:49 ` calcium
2022-01-08 16:24 ` Matt
2022-01-08 18:58 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-01-08 19:06 ` Leo Famulari
2022-01-09 21:12 ` Matt
2022-01-10 9:05 ` André A. Gomes
2022-01-10 13:40 ` Matt
2022-01-10 16:05 ` André A. Gomes
2022-01-11 18:45 ` Matt
2022-01-12 18:41 ` Leo Famulari
2022-01-13 0:04 ` Matt
2022-01-13 0:22 ` Leo Famulari
2022-01-13 13:15 ` ilmu
2022-01-08 13:41 ` Matt
2022-01-08 14:09 ` Julien Lepiller
2022-01-08 14:54 ` Matt
2022-01-08 14:39 ` Josselin Poiret
2022-01-08 4:52 Matt
2022-01-10 9:47 ` Oliver Propst
2022-01-10 13:15 ` Matt
2022-01-11 16:24 ` jgart
2022-01-12 0:59 ` Matt
2022-01-12 1:20 ` jgart
2022-01-12 2:57 ` Matt
2022-01-12 3:10 ` Matt
2021-12-13 13:45 Blake Shaw
2021-12-13 15:55 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2021-12-13 12:41 Blake Shaw
2021-12-13 12:33 Blake Shaw
2021-12-15 17:37 ` Blake Shaw
2021-12-15 19:12 ` zimoun
2021-12-15 22:37 ` jgart
2021-12-11 1:42 Blake Shaw
2021-12-09 9:28 jgart
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