From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Perl modules Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 21:16:19 +0200 Message-ID: <87eh00qg70.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140511085638.GA15275@debian> <87y4y8sksl.fsf@gnu.org> <20140511103053.GA2361@debian> <87ppjksgan.fsf@gnu.org> <20140511114127.GA8798@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36403) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WjZEo-0001nC-Hw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 May 2014 15:16:48 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WjZEi-00012f-IL for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 May 2014 15:16:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20140511114127.GA8798@debian> (Andreas Enge's message of "Sun, 11 May 2014 13:41:27 +0200") 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: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, bug-guix@gnu.org Andreas Enge skribis: > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 01:31:12PM +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: >> But there=E2=80=99s no tool that really =E2=80=9Cinterprets=E2=80=9D of = what=E2=80=99s in the >> =E2=80=98description=E2=80=99 field[*]. What do you mean? >> [*] Actually, =E2=80=98fill-paragraph=E2=80=99 from (guix ui), which is = used for the >> output of =E2=80=98guix package --search=E2=80=99 does some very bas= ic >> interpretation. > > Well, the output of "guix package --search" has different line breaks than > those present in the string of the description field. So something modifi= es > it, Yes, that=E2=80=99s =E2=80=98fill-paragraph=E2=80=99. > 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. That=E2=80=99s really a bug in =E2=80=98fill-paragraph=E2=80=99. I=E2=80=99m filing it now and will look at it later, unless someone beats m= e. ;-) Ludo=E2=80=99.