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| author | Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> | 2016-02-05 14:51:45 +0300 |
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| committer | Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> | 2016-02-07 11:24:35 +0300 |
| commit | 7c1b1ae24affad95c0595830d0163cdf771ec787 (patch) | |
| tree | 1b0bb64c6117ed2bcb933fc62f92c0c9ffb98925 | |
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doc: Document 'guix-edit' Emacs command.
* doc/emacs.texi (Emacs Commands): Document "M-x guix-edit".
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix edit): Mention it.
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diff --git a/doc/emacs.texi b/doc/emacs.texi index 19dc87f177..d46c17c4a0 100644 --- a/doc/emacs.texi +++ b/doc/emacs.texi @@ -219,6 +219,28 @@ With @kbd{C-u}, make it verbose. Once @command{guix pull} has succeeded, the Guix REPL is restared. This allows you to keep using the Emacs interface with the updated Guix. +Finally, there is an Emacs variant of @command{guix edit} command +(@pxref{Invoking guix edit}): + +@table @kbd +@item M-x guix-edit +As with @kbd{M-x guix-packages-by-name}, you can press @key{TAB} to +complete a package name. +@end table + +If you are contributing to Guix, you may find it useful for @kbd{M-x +guix-edit} to open package files from your git directory. This can be +done by setting @code{guix-directory} variable. For example, after +this: + +@example +(setq guix-directory "~/src/guix") +@end example + +@kbd{M-x guix-edit guix} opens +@file{~/src/guix/gnu/packages/package-management.scm} file. + + @node Emacs General info @subsection General information diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 66ab384e98..80a1621b45 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -4201,9 +4201,9 @@ launches the program specified in the @code{VISUAL} or in the and that of Vim. If you are using Emacs, note that the Emacs user interface provides -similar functionality in the ``package info'' and ``package list'' -buffers created by @kbd{M-x guix-search-by-name} and similar commands -(@pxref{Emacs Commands}). +@kbd{M-x guix-edit} command and a similar functionality in the ``package +info'' and ``package list'' buffers created by @kbd{M-x +guix-search-by-name} and similar commands (@pxref{Emacs Commands}). @node Invoking guix download |