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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/code.scm | 9 |
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/code.scm b/gnu/packages/code.scm index 061ec27b80..f91fdab153 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/code.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/code.scm @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2015 Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> ;;; Copyright © 2015 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> ;;; Copyright © 2016 Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> +;;; Copyright © 2017 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; @@ -209,9 +210,11 @@ COCOMO model or user-provided parameters.") (home-page "http://geoff.greer.fm/ag/") (synopsis "Fast code searching tool") (description - "The silver searcher, or 'ag', is tool for quickly searching through -files, but compared to grep is much faster and respects files like .gitignore, -.hgignore, etc.") + "The Silver Searcher (@command{ag}) is a tool for quickly searching large +numbers of files. It's intended primarily for source code repositories, and +respects files like @file{.gitignore} and @file{.hgignore}. It's also an order +of magnitude faster than its inspiration, @command{ack}, and less specialised +tools such as @command{grep}.") (license license:asl2.0))) (define-public trio |