From: Xinglu Chen <public@yoctocell.xyz>
To: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>, 51543@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#51543] [PATCH 2/2] doc: Document ‘home-bash-extension’ configuration record.
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2021 12:56:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tugq4xys.fsf@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ceec77e319e8f3d6ecd6c5b7683a6f511e07a183.camel@gmail.com>
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Hi,
On Mon, Nov 01 2021, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Montag, den 01.11.2021, 14:22 +0100 schrieb Xinglu Chen:
>> [...]
>>
>> The keys should be strings; the rules for
>> ‘home-environment-variable-service-type’ apply here (see “11.3.1
>> Essential Home Services”).
> You might want to explicitly state that.
Yes, good idea.
>> > At which point are these fields inserted into which files (e.g. do
>> > the aliases come before profile or after it)?
>>
>> Good question! The contents of ‘aliases’ and ‘bashrc’ are put into
>> ~/.bashrc, in that order. The contents of ‘bash-profile’ and
>> ‘environment-variables’ are put into ~/.bash_profile, in that order.
>> This doesn’t seem that consistent, is there any preference to what
>> order should be used?
> You can use whichever makes sense to you, I'm just pointing out that it
> ought to be documented.
>
>> > If some field is already described as part of home-bash-service,
>> > you might also want to link back to it, but you should still state
>> > where the extension occurs. Is new code added to the front or to
>> > the back for instance. (On that note, is the text-config type
>> > well-documented?)
>>
>> I don’t think there is a way to link to ‘home-bash-configuration’
>> using Texinfo; one can only link to “Shells Home Services”.
> Texinfo should support anchors, which can point to arbitrary text. Of
> course one could overdo it by linking each and every field, but imho
> having one link for context is better than none.
Ah, that would do it. Thanks for the pointer.
I will send an updated series.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-05 11:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-01 9:43 [bug#51543] [PATCH 0/2] Some improvements to the Bash home service Xinglu Chen
2021-11-01 9:45 ` [bug#51543] [PATCH 1/2] home: services: bash: Add ‘aliases’ field Xinglu Chen
2021-11-01 9:45 ` [bug#51543] [PATCH 2/2] doc: Document ‘home-bash-extension’ configuration record Xinglu Chen
2021-11-01 10:45 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-11-01 13:22 ` Xinglu Chen
2021-11-01 16:38 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-11-05 11:56 ` Xinglu Chen [this message]
2021-11-05 14:03 ` [bug#51543] [PATCH 0/2] Some improvements to the Bash home service Xinglu Chen
2021-11-05 14:03 ` [bug#51543] [PATCH 1/2] home: services: bash: Add ‘aliases’ field Xinglu Chen
2021-11-05 14:03 ` [bug#51543] [PATCH 2/2] doc: Improve documentation of the Bash home service Xinglu Chen
2021-11-05 19:36 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-11-07 11:20 ` Xinglu Chen
2021-11-07 11:36 ` [bug#51543] [PATCH v3 0/2] Some improvements to " Xinglu Chen
2021-11-07 11:36 ` [bug#51543] [PATCH v3 1/2] home: services: bash: Add ‘aliases’ field Xinglu Chen
2021-11-07 11:36 ` [bug#51543] [PATCH v3 2/2] doc: Improve documentation of the Bash home service Xinglu Chen
2021-11-07 20:18 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-11-07 20:58 ` bug#51543: [PATCH 0/2] Some improvements to " Ludovic Courtès
2021-11-13 20:35 ` [bug#51543] " Ludovic Courtès
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