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From: Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherine.e@gmail.com>
To: adriano <randomlooser@riseup.net>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Guix Documentation Meetup
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2022 09:58:06 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dbcvott.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <363f0c07c5d49eac83006c628e9b8aad461650e0.camel@riseup.net> (adriano's message of "Thu, 30 Dec 2021 22:52:39 +0100")

adriano <randomlooser@riseup.net> writes:

> Il giorno dom, 12/12/2021 alle 21.50 -0600, Katherine Cox-Buday ha scritto:

>> - In geiser, run =,a thing-i-want-to-look-for= (this is supposedly an
>> apropos command that is supposed to search symbols for you). The command
>> returns nothing.

> about this, I want to report an example
>
> scheme@(guile-user)> (help tail)
> Did not find any object named `tail'
> scheme@(guile-user)> 
>
> BUT
>
> scheme@(guile-user)> (help "tail") <-- notice the quotation marks !
> Documentation found for:

> That is, help with the quotation marks reports about things even if
> they're in namespaces you haven't imported yet !

Thank you very much for the tip! I will definitely be trying this next time I'm hacking on Guile!

-- 
Katherine


  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-06 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-10 22:40 Guix Documentation Meetup Blake Shaw
2021-12-10 23:18 ` Ryan Prior
2021-12-11 18:55   ` Katherine Cox-Buday
     [not found]     ` <87lf0q2m7n.fsf@nonconstructivism.com>
2021-12-13  3:50       ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2021-12-30 21:52         ` adriano
2022-01-06 15:58           ` Katherine Cox-Buday [this message]
2021-12-13  8:29 ` zimoun
2021-12-14 16:01   ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2021-12-14 17:38     ` Luis Felipe
2021-12-14 17:52       ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2021-12-20 17:45 ` Guile documentation Ludovic Courtès
2021-12-21 11:01   ` Blake Shaw
2021-12-21  6:41 ` Guix Documentation Meetup adriano
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-03-10 17:02 Raghav Gururajan
2022-03-10 17:11 ` Raghav Gururajan
     [not found] <mailman.34870.1641617883.18145.guix-devel@gnu.org>
2022-01-08  8:42 ` calcium
2022-01-08 11:35   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-01-08 11:49     ` calcium
2022-01-08 16:24     ` Matt
2022-01-08 18:58       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-01-08 19:06       ` Leo Famulari
2022-01-09 21:12         ` Matt
2022-01-10  9:05           ` André A. Gomes
2022-01-10 13:40             ` Matt
2022-01-10 16:05               ` André A. Gomes
2022-01-11 18:45                 ` Matt
2022-01-12 18:41           ` Leo Famulari
2022-01-13  0:04             ` Matt
2022-01-13  0:22       ` Leo Famulari
2022-01-13 13:15         ` ilmu
2022-01-08 13:41   ` Matt
2022-01-08 14:09     ` Julien Lepiller
2022-01-08 14:54       ` Matt
2022-01-08 14:39     ` Josselin Poiret
2022-01-08  4:52 Matt
2022-01-10  9:47 ` Oliver Propst
2022-01-10 13:15   ` Matt
2022-01-11 16:24     ` jgart
2022-01-12  0:59       ` Matt
2022-01-12  1:20         ` jgart
2022-01-12  2:57           ` Matt
2022-01-12  3:10             ` Matt
2021-12-13 13:45 Blake Shaw
2021-12-13 15:55 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2021-12-13 12:41 Blake Shaw
2021-12-13 12:33 Blake Shaw
2021-12-15 17:37 ` Blake Shaw
2021-12-15 19:12   ` zimoun
2021-12-15 22:37     ` jgart
2021-12-11  1:42 Blake Shaw
2021-12-09  9:28 jgart

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