From 96856613249ccef0bfce16edd945a841d1b661f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 18:44:18 +0100
Subject: doc: Add a REPL example.

* doc/contributing.texi (Running Guix Before It Is Installed): Add REPL
  example.
* doc/emacs.texi (Emacs General info): Add @cindex.
---
 doc/contributing.texi | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc/contributing.texi')

diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi
index 245ce9b1c4..d80c0d5fdf 100644
--- a/doc/contributing.texi
+++ b/doc/contributing.texi
@@ -86,6 +86,30 @@ Similarly, for a Guile session using the Guix modules:
 
 @example
 $ ./pre-inst-env guile -c '(use-modules (guix utils)) (pk (%current-system))'
+
+;;; ("x86_64-linux")
+@end example
+
+@noindent
+@cindex REPL
+@cindex read-eval-print loop
+@dots{} and for a REPL (@pxref{Using Guile Interactively,,, guile, Guile
+Reference Manual}):
+
+@example
+$ ./pre-inst-env guile
+scheme@@(guile-user)> ,use(guix)
+scheme@@(guile-user)> ,use(gnu)
+scheme@@(guile-user)> (define snakes
+                       (fold-packages
+                         (lambda (package lst)
+                           (if (string-prefix? "python"
+                                               (package-name package))
+                               (cons package lst)
+                               lst))
+                         '()))
+scheme@@(guile-user)> (length snakes)
+$1 = 361
 @end example
 
 The @command{pre-inst-env} script sets up all the environment variables
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