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Re: Emacs-Guix 0.3.1


From: Clément Lassieur
Subject: Re: Emacs-Guix 0.3.1
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 10:51:19 +0200
User-agent: mu4e 0.9.18; emacs 25.2.1

Fox <address@hidden> writes:

>   Alex Kost wrote:
>
>> if you don't like to read "info", Emacs-Guix manual is available
>> online now:
>
>   https://alezost.github.io/guix.el/manual/latest/html_node/index.html
>
>
> html sure is better workable than the "info" format.

I prefer the 'info' format because:

- it makes it very easy to grep special characters (try to grep the pair
  syntax (a . b) in Google..., with info, just do: 's', then ' \. '),

- keyboard bindings (i, m...) are incredibly useful when you are looking
  for info on a general topic or keyword, e.g. G-exps in Guix, 'format'
  in Guile.

- it's offline.

> But then, some GNU documentation suffers from lack of ability to explain 
> things to folks who do NOT know it all already.
>
> case in point:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eshell.html#Invocation
>
> if you expected to be told how to invoke an eshell, forget it.
> That whole manual is only useful if you ALREADY know that you need to 
> press ALT-x eshell RETURN and the menus (where in a real editor such a 
> function would be available) will let you down, so don't even bother to 
> search eamcs menus for "eshell". So instead of reading the GNU manual on 
> eshell you better do what you always do: google it and often times succeed.

Actually, the info you are looking for is in the Emacs manual
(https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Shell.html).

BTW if you don't know 'info', there is an 'info' manual that is very
helpful for people who do NOT know it all already:
(https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/info-stnd/info-stnd.html)

:-)



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