From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Marusich Subject: Re: Newbie packagers Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 01:30:59 -0700 Message-ID: <877fce5b24.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87poq7dm44.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58249) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQVrQ-0001AN-Jx for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 04:31:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQVrO-0004da-LU for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 04:31:07 -0400 Received: from mail-pf0-x22c.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c00::22c]:35721) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQVrO-0004dV-Ek for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 04:31:06 -0400 Received: by mail-pf0-x22c.google.com with SMTP id x72so39369363pfd.2 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 01:31:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Vincent Legoll's message of "Thu, 21 Jul 2016 19:13:32 +0200") List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Vincent Legoll Cc: help-guix@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Vincent Legoll writes: > The big problem with the abbreviated forms is that they're not easily > googlable, if I knew their long names, I could've found them in online > doc... FYI, one of the best ways to find that information is to look it up in the manual by index or by searching the entire manual for the string. For example, in both the standard Info reader and the Emacs info reader, you can press "i", type ",@" (without quotes), hit enter, and you will magically arrive at the right section. If that doesn't work, you can also do C-s to incrementally search the entire manual for the string in question. This works in any well-written manual authored with GNU Texinfo. For example, if you want to know about the "perror" function from the GNU C Library, just pull up the manual and type "i", then "perror", the hit enter. This is often faster and more accurate than doing an Internet search for the symbols. It's a great feature of any manual written in GNU Texinfo! =2D-=20 Chris --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXkdnFAAoJEN1AmhXYIkaducUP/iRtH59OqxP5oJJoqPUHI3R5 V3A1LavsRRH3bwKmcmBWsLltq5LLBfBAmw33x6WdHMxiGkesky/qGVDJAndjux5+ q6JmmO+DZy8iat0cVF16W/PuzBasEJj7GXtuErCPiZRg3y6dmVBTItN+s+maktfk H/99aKo30mSyOFB3JPp6WDDhf9MhZrHwL6rhGp+JxPHeA6lYxgUnt3igVE7VX6iv LtBpz7hq8cRTK3ArIXpNBaJupzG5WpqvMQ84HpXkYJVN5a+/afV++5bkHGMEr/S3 4cOiUxRBVyH0/1IM95sAXO+u/HI7IIx0AtBtFRQPmZt9Ecs97WGGh5cTv/1cJX8K hEzyLyJ17kAVE0JGnZRZ8oKPyA3cX8/12wyzTd6u9QOvGA2Izm2q21ExYon82er/ Tr9t0F25UWPS7bj0KwPRtQT8KHrjeegaIO7cLR75zBTyg4LMIzvIi7A8yd9y/dAb tu3sgcXIMxXo8tdrgz4GxxNGsCZ20BhY+00E2HJhM4A4TO7Psq1p9N3LdPR52N2A RWpCpwEIUTOooE3XH5LLNWkM6Umz4cS4C+CcBtpQh9c6S79ZPALYA32ys3rqZIaQ A7epPGH7M9m/QOnZGKK3vYK5mfzEHfCbItZS81r91X7H89HpUKFWnbrU+1Uc1uW4 nlY3TJ3DaWVXhSIqq1zq =pmYR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--