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.

For instance, if I want to install all Emacs packages except, say,
emacs-guix (haha! :p) then I would

- M-x helm-system-packages
- "emacs"
- M-a
- "emacs-guix"
- C-space
- <f2>

In other words, it scales well with big loads of packages.

>> - Perform actions over multiple packages: browse home-page, show
>> (reverse) deps, find-files (with helm-find-files -- awesome! :p).
>
> This sounds interesting -- I guess I should read more about helm.

Yup, it's hard to explain with words and not verbal explanation can
compete with a demo.  If you've never used Helm/Ivy before, wait no
further, it's a must (in my humble opinion, of course!).

> Thank you for taking the time to explain!

My pleasure, let me know if you want to know more.

Cheers!

--
Pierre Neidhardt