From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Ekaitz Zarraga <ekaitz@elenq.tech>
Cc: "guix-devel\\@gnu.org" <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: guix describe user experience improvement proposition
Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 21:44:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ3okZ1Z7M_dsO4Wi70OGpi_AkJihvq0E-YyXe7zcLOOw5bZLg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Dear
On Tue, 12 May 2020 at 21:07, Ekaitz Zarraga <ekaitz@elenq.tech> wrote:
> I suggest adding the possible format list in the help of the `guix describe -h` command. That way the feature discovery is easier for users that don't want to dig in the code.
Usually, the way to add such information is '--list-formats', e.g.,
see "guix graph"with '--list-types' and '-list-backends'. I do not
know if it is an usually. ;-)
> - (display (G_ "
> - -f, --format=FORMAT display information in the given FORMAT"))
> + (display (string-append (G_ "
> + -f, --format=FORMAT display information in the given FORMAT: ") (string-join available-formats "|")))
The issue is the length, so at least it should on 2 lines to fix screen size.
All the best,
simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-12 19:44 UTC|newest]
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2020-05-12 19:07 guix describe user experience improvement proposition Ekaitz Zarraga
2020-05-12 19:44 ` zimoun [this message]
2020-05-12 20:13 ` Ekaitz Zarraga
2020-05-12 22:20 ` Ekaitz Zarraga
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