bug#22587: ‘guix edit’ & ‘M-x guix-edit' typo, rename, & mode change

Alex Kost skribis: > Ludovic Courtès (2016-06-02 22:40 +0300) wrote: > >> Alex Kost skribis: >> >>> Ludovic Courtès (2016-04-20 18:31 +0300) wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> However, I think (1) the title should describe the bug, not the >> solution, and

bug#22587: ‘guix edit’ & ‘M-x guix-edit' typo, rename, & mode change

Ludovic Courtès (2016-06-02 22:40 +0300) wrote: > Alex Kost skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès (2016-04-20 18:31 +0300) wrote: > > [...] > > However, I think (1) the title should describe the bug, not the > solution, and (2) ‘guix edit’ does what it says IMO, even if it can

bug#22587: ‘guix edit’ & ‘M-x guix-edit' typo, rename, & mode change

Hi! Alex Kost skribis: > Ludovic Courtès (2016-04-20 18:31 +0300) wrote: [...] However, I think (1) the title should describe the bug, not the solution, and (2) ‘guix edit’ does what it says IMO, even if it can occasionally stumble upon read-only files. >>>

bug#22587: ‘guix edit’ & ‘M-x guix-edit' typo, rename, & mode change

Alex Kost skribis: > Ludovic Courtès (2016-04-19 13:50 +0300) wrote: > >> Alex Kost skribis: >> >>> Ludovic Courtès (2016-04-18 20:41 +0300) wrote: >>> It seems to me that this bug has no clear purpose, or too broad a purpose, or something.

bug#22587: ‘guix edit’ & ‘M-x guix-edit' typo, rename, & mode change

Ludovic Courtès (2016-04-19 13:50 +0300) wrote: > Alex Kost skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès (2016-04-18 20:41 +0300) wrote: >> >>> It seems to me that this bug has no clear purpose, or too broad a >>> purpose, or something. >>> >>> Could you retitle it, or close it, or fix it,

bug#22587: ‘guix edit’ & ‘M-x guix-edit' typo, rename, & mode change

Alex Kost skribis: > Ludovic Courtès (2016-04-18 20:41 +0300) wrote: > >> It seems to me that this bug has no clear purpose, or too broad a >> purpose, or something. >> >> Could you retitle it, or close it, or fix it, whichever is appropriate? >> :-) > > Was it for me? ‘To

bug#22587: ‘guix edit’ & ‘M-x guix-edit' typo, rename, & mode change

Ludovic Courtès (2016-04-18 20:41 +0300) wrote: > It seems to me that this bug has no clear purpose, or too broad a > purpose, or something. > > Could you retitle it, or close it, or fix it, whichever is appropriate? > :-) Was it for me? I think the main purpose of this report was to tell us

bug#22587: ‘guix edit’ & ‘M-x guix-edit' typo, rename, & mode change

Alex Kost writes: > myglc2 (2016-02-08 21:29 +0300) wrote: > >> Alex Kost writes: >> >>> 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

bug#22587: ‘guix edit’ & ‘M-x guix-edit' typo, rename, & mode change

myglc2 (2016-02-08 21:29 +0300) wrote: > Alex Kost writes: > >> 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

bug#22587: ‘guix edit’ & ‘M-x guix-edit' typo, rename, & mode change

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

bug#22587: ‘guix edit’ & ‘M-x guix-edit' typo, rename, & mode change

Andreas Enge writes: > On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 01:04:40PM -0500, myglc2 wrote: >> TYPO: >> "edit" (last line above) should be replaced with "view", "inspect", or >> "examine". >> RENAME: >> Calling these functions 'guix edit' and 'M-x guix-edit' implies that the >> user will be

bug#22587: ‘guix edit’ & ‘M-x guix-edit' typo, rename, & mode change

On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 02:22:36PM -0500, myglc2 wrote: > But, AIUI, this goes against the guix concept of an immutable store. > To describe and name this function to imply that one could/should edit > recipes in the store based on the "corner case" of root having the > ultimable ability to do so