Re: Useful Info related Emacs functions (was Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date)

2023-10-19 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, Cool! Thanks for sharing. On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 at 20:41, Matt wrote: >((string= info-file "guix") > (concat "https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/html_node/; > (if (string= node "Top") "" > (concat

Useful Info related Emacs functions (was Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date)

2023-10-18 Thread Matt
On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 19:55:17 +0200 Simon Tournier wrote --- > On Sat, 14 Oct 2023 at 12:11, Maxim Cournoyer maxim.courno...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Not to preach, but I've spent some time looking at 'info info' once and > > I'm sold to it now. I basically use these keys: 'g'

Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date

2023-10-18 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi Maxim, On Sat, 14 Oct 2023 at 12:11, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Not to preach, but I've spent some time looking at 'info info' once and > I'm sold to it now. I basically use these keys: 'g' to navigate to > nodes, 'm' to select a menu, 'space' to page down and 'backspace' to > page up. Yeah

Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date

2023-10-04 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, On Wed, 04 Oct 2023 at 17:33, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Yeah but for instance I barely use Info because I never remember how to >> navigate and often I have an approximate idea about what I am looking >> for and in this case, I am faster with the HTML documentation. > > That’s fine, we all

Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date

2023-10-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Simon Tournier skribis: > On Thu, 28 Sep 2023 at 08:35, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > >> Across the wider GNU system the command for accessing manuals is “info” >> followed by the name of the manual, e.g. “info guix” or “info >> guix-cookbook”. > > Yeah but for instance I barely use Info because

Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date

2023-10-02 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi Ricardo, On Thu, 28 Sep 2023 at 08:35, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Across the wider GNU system the command for accessing manuals is “info” > followed by the name of the manual, e.g. “info guix” or “info > guix-cookbook”. Yeah but for instance I barely use Info because I never remember how to

Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date

2023-09-28 Thread Nathan Dehnel
Yeah but that doesn't open the nicely formatted browser version of the manual On Thu, Sep 28, 2023, 01:36 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Nathan Dehnel writes: > > > I feel there should be a "guix manual" command that opens the latest > > version of your local copy in a new tab of whatever your XDG

Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date

2023-09-28 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Nathan Dehnel writes: > I feel there should be a "guix manual" command that opens the latest > version of your local copy in a new tab of whatever your XDG web > browser is Across the wider GNU system the command for accessing manuals is “info” followed by the name of the manual, e.g. “info

Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date

2023-09-28 Thread Nathan Dehnel
I feel there should be a "guix manual" command that opens the latest version of your local copy in a new tab of whatever your XDG web browser is

Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date

2023-09-26 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi, On Tue, Sep 26 2023, Peter Polidoro wrote: > Web searches for "guix manual" do not tend to show the devel > version so it can be difficult for new users to find This entire discussion, and especially Attila's excellent tongue-in-cheek point, probably belongs into Bug#51000. [1]

Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date

2023-09-26 Thread Peter Polidoro
On Tue, 26 Sept 2023 at 11:55, Attila Lendvai wrote: if Guix is using a rolling release model, then maybe it's not an unreasonable expectation that the online manual also follows the latest in the git repo, no? maybe we should stop prefixing devel/, and start prefixing the releases?

Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date

2023-09-26 Thread jgart
> > My expectation for browsing help from a website these days is that ... I concur!

Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date

2023-09-26 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi, Simon Tournier writes: > Hi, > > On Tue, 26 Sept 2023 at 11:55, Attila Lendvai wrote: >> > > When will the above website be updated to use the latest manual >> > > information about branches? >> > >> > What do you mean? >> > >> > 1. The manual you are pointing is the released v1.4.0

Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date

2023-09-26 Thread jgart
Hi Simon and Attila, I like the idea of releasing the website as a rolling release. The issue with keeping the release manual around is in edge cases like these where even though we have an old release manual and a rolling release manual, people contributing are expected to follow the latest

Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date

2023-09-26 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, On Tue, 26 Sept 2023 at 11:55, Attila Lendvai wrote: > > > When will the above website be updated to use the latest manual > > > information about branches? > > > > What do you mean? > > > > 1. The manual you are pointing is the released v1.4.0 manual, not the > > latest one. This v1.4.0

Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date

2023-09-26 Thread Attila Lendvai
> > When will the above website be updated to use the latest manual > > information about branches? > > > What do you mean? > > 1. The manual you are pointing is the released v1.4.0 manual, not the > latest one. This v1.4.0 manual is set in stone and is a snapshot > of Guix at v1.4.0. if Guix

Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date

2023-09-26 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, On Tue, 26 Sep 2023 at 03:18, "jgart" wrote: > https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Submitting-Patches.html > When will the above website be updated to use the latest manual > information about branches? What do you mean? 1. The manual you are pointing is the released v1.4.0

more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date

2023-09-25 Thread jgart
> more than 1,800 dependent packages https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Submitting-Patches.html Hi Guixers, When will the above website be updated to use the latest manual information about branches? all best, jgart