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On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 at 16:02, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> wrote:

> No.  It was a deliberate decision to make =E2=80=98guix search=E2=80=99/=
=E2=80=98guix
> package -s=E2=80=99 show only the =E2=80=98top=E2=80=99 result when stdou=
t is a TTY.  I
> don't like it either.  The argument was that packages are sorted
> with the most relevant one at the top, which would scroll out of
> view.

Even the 'relevance' scoring function should be discussed. ;-)


> I *still* think we should either do nothing, or call $PAGER
> automatically when stdout is a TTY.

I think there is a patch which changes the behaviour to "do nothing"
when INSIDE_EMACS is set.
But from my point of view, the philosophy is to combine "guix search"
with "recsel" to filter the results and then to use "guix show" to
read the information of the package.

(Note that "guix show" shows only one package and it should be able to
accept a list. TODO list ;-))


All the best,
simon