On Mon, 04 Jul 2022 15:22:09 +0200 Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > In addition to what zimoun wrote, see this discussion about providing > REPL metacommands to lower or build things:
Simoun, thanks for the repl session demo. I hadn't tried running the guix scripts modules at the repl yet. Ludo, thanks for the metacommand discussion link. It's much appreciated! In exploring at the repl a bit now I realized that running `(guix-package "--help")` or `(guix-package "--version")` causes the repl to exit. This is because each of those "CLI calls" end up running `(exit 0)` at the end in some form or another. Would it be desireable to write some extra code to have the `guix-*` "CLI functions" not call `(exit 0)` if in a repl and call it if using from the command line? I imagine that this is only desireable if using the command line? That way I won't be thrown out of the repl session by accident and the experience would be more like the CLI experience. I'm thinking something like a `maybe-exit` and `show-version-and-maybe-exit` function instead of `(exit 0)` and `show-version-and-exit` as currently used, respectively. I'm not sure at the moment on how to detect if I am in a repl when calling those functions or if I am calling them from the command line. What do you think? -- jgart
