Dear,
On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 10:35, Jan Synacek <jsynacek@redhat.com> wrote:
> Seriously? Are you seriously forcing your users to either run emacs (or at least
> to set the env variable) or use pipes to get the entire search result?
It is "known" that Guix should respect the PAGER variable [1,2] and it
is already a feature request [3].
Why do you want to make things complicated? What's wrong with *just showing the entire output*? And let users decide if they want to use a pager, recsel, emacs or redirect the output somewhere else.
I mean you run a command and the command shows its output. It makes me kind of sad that there even has to be a discussion about this.
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-02/msg00039.html
[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2020-02/msg00150.html
[3] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2020-02/msg00154.html
> That's just... backwards. Also, it feels like as if the author of that code sort
> of assumed that whoever runs the command is stupid enough not to be able to deal
> with long output. I'm sure that it wasn't meant like that.
The manual recommands to use "guix search" in combination with
'recsels' (see [4] '--search' paragraph).
Good, I actually like that recommendation.
Thank you for sharing your opinion.
You're welcome.