On 15-11-23 08:03pm, Jan Malakhovski wrote: > That is, I'd like > > * All the docs to be available and discoverable locally. > /run/current-system/sw/share/doc FTW. (easy to do)
Yes, please. > * To have a thing that indexes all the man, info and haddock pages for > full text search using e.g. Xapian lib. (I don't know a good tool for > this, I'd like to get suggestions.) This can become a killer feature, > think universal `help` command that works faster than google (local > Xapian is extremely fast, as witnessed by `notmuch` and `mu`), that > gives matches relevant to your system, and doesn't leak your interests > for all the Internet to mine. Even more yes, please. I thought about this in the past, as a first step it would be a killer feature to be able to use the documentation on the system with https://zealdocs.org/ (as compared to using the outdated versions provided by default). > * NixOS documentation to be available in `info` format since `info` has > index support, indexes are awesome, and navigation in `info` is kind > of cool too (especially compared to plain HTML). (Should be possible > with docbook2x-texi) Is info still the best documentation format we’ve got? Interesting. -- Proudly written in Mutt with Vim on NixOS. Q: Why is this email five sentences or less? A: http://five.sentenc.es May take up to five days to read your message. If it’s urgent, call me. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
