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Read standard input in `guix repl'

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: 44612 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44612: Read standard input in `guix repl'
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:22:14 +0100

Hi Pierre!

Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz> skribis:

> Indeed, it works perfectly now, I've implemented your suggestions and
> Nyxt is now running a "guix repl server" to which it sends all the
> requests.  It's awesome! :)
>
> The only issue remaining is the weird behaviour that one has to pass
> /dev/stdin to get rid of the welcome message:
>
> echo '(display "Hi.\n")' | guix repl /dev/stdin

As discussed earlier, I think you should use ‘-t machine’, which doesn’t
have the welcome message.  ‘-t guile’ (the default) is meant for humans,
not for inter-process communication.

Ludo’.

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