Dear, On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 10:35, Jan Synacek <[email protected]> wrote:
> Seriously? Are you seriously forcing your users to either run emacs (or at > least > to set the env variable) or use pipes to get the entire search result? It is "known" that Guix should respect the PAGER variable [1,2] and it is already a feature request [3]. [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-02/msg00039.html [2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2020-02/msg00150.html [3] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2020-02/msg00154.html > That's just... backwards. Also, it feels like as if the author of that code > sort > of assumed that whoever runs the command is stupid enough not to be able to > deal > with long output. I'm sure that it wasn't meant like that. The manual recommands to use "guix search" in combination with 'recsels' (see [4] '--search' paragraph). Therefore, the current philosophy of searching is: 1) guix search <regexps> | recsel -P name,synopsis | grep <other-regexps> 2) guix show <your-interest> I agree we could discuss that... as it was started for example see this thread [5]. [4] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Invoking-guix-package [5] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-12/msg00141.html > Pretty please, fix this. Don't force your users into usage patterns that might > be completely foreign to them. Don't truncate output from programs by default. Thank you for sharing your opinion. After a discussion [6] on other opinions than yours, another strategy is implemented [7] and yes the default behaviour could be discussed (see bottom [8] and elswhere I am too lazy to find them :-)). [6] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35551#11 [7] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36390 [8] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-02/msg00378.html > Here's my suggestion: Don't make idiosyncratic decisions like the one I > described above. I don't think that your target audience is people completely > new to linux-like systems. I'm definitely not new. And I'm used to tools that > just simply (remember the KISS principle?) give me output when I run them. Your suggestion is to implement "Guix honours $PAGER", right? And to test on another environment variable name than $INSIDE_EMACS, right? Thank you for your feedback. All the best, simon
