myglc2 (2016-02-07 21:04 +0300) wrote: > From guix INFO: > > 6.2 Invoking ‘guix edit’ > [...] > launches the program specified in the ‘VISUAL’ or in the ‘EDITOR’ > environment variable to edit the recipe of GCC 4.8.4 and that of Vim." > > TYPO: > > "edit" (last line above) should be replaced with "view", "inspect", or > "examine".
Just to mention - I like "edit" name :-) > RENAME: > > Calling these functions 'guix edit' and 'M-x guix-edit' implies that the > user will be able to modify the recipe, but this is not actually the > case. The functions should be given a more informative and accurate > name, such as: 'guix view', 'guix inspect', or 'guix examine'. Along with the package recipes that come with Guix, a user can also have his/her own packages (specified using GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH env var), and "guix edit my-super-package" opens a user's file with this package. It is highly likely that this file is editable, so "guix edit" is a perfect name in this case I think. IMO it's a user responsibility to understand what files can be edited and what cannot. But I agree that this may be confusing, so maybe we should clarify the manual to explain in (info "(guix) Invoking guix edit") that store files must not be edited. > MODE CHANGE: > > In emacs, read-only .scm files should be opened in view-mode. I don't agree. For example, when you open "/etc/hosts" (or whatever) file in Emacs, you get a message: Note: file is write protected which indicates that it is opened read-only, but view-mode is not used by default. You can enable it manually if you wish. The same thing happens with package files. -- Alex
