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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 1c7f4e1232..a93003d625 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ Defining Packages Utilities * Invoking guix build:: Building packages from the command line. +* Invoking guix edit:: * Invoking guix download:: Downloading a file and printing its hash. * Invoking guix hash:: Computing the cryptographic hash of a file. * Invoking guix import:: Importing package definitions. @@ -1931,7 +1932,10 @@ unavailable to the build process, possibly leading to a build failure. Once a package definition is in place, the package may actually be built using the @code{guix build} command-line -tool (@pxref{Invoking guix build}). @xref{Packaging Guidelines}, for +tool (@pxref{Invoking guix build}). You can easily jump back to the +package definition using the @command{guix edit} command +(@pxref{Invoking guix edit}). +@xref{Packaging Guidelines}, for more information on how to test package definitions, and @ref{Invoking guix lint}, for information on how to check a definition for style conformance. @@ -3261,6 +3265,7 @@ programming interface of Guix in a convenient way. @menu * Invoking guix build:: Building packages from the command line. +* Invoking guix edit:: Editing package definitions. * Invoking guix download:: Downloading a file and printing its hash. * Invoking guix hash:: Computing the cryptographic hash of a file. * Invoking guix import:: Importing package definitions. @@ -3548,6 +3553,28 @@ the parsed command-line options. @end defvr +@node Invoking guix edit +@section Invoking @command{guix edit} + +@cindex package definition, editing +So many packages, so many source files! The @command{guix edit} command +facilitates the life of packagers by pointing their editor at the source +file containing the definition of the specified packages. For instance: + +@example +guix edit gcc-4.8 vim +@end example + +@noindent +launches the program specified in the @code{EDITOR} environment variable +to edit the recipe of GCC@tie{}4.8.4 and that of Vim. + +If you are using Emacs, note that the Emacs user interface provides +similar functionality in the ``package info'' buffers created by +@kbd{M-x guix-search-by-name} and similar commands (@pxref{Emacs +Commands}). + + @node Invoking guix download @section Invoking @command{guix download} |