Subject: Re: bug#59712: [DOCUMENTATION] [PATCH] doc: Suggest guile-readline and guile-colorized.

From: mirai <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2022 17:28:45 +0000

On 2022-12-14 11:39, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> [email-masked] skribis:
> 
>> From: Bruno Victal <[email-masked]>
>>
>> Allows for a smoother experience with './pre-inst-env guix repl'.
>>
>> * doc/contributing.texi (Building from Git): Suggest guile-readline and guile-colorized.
> 
> Is this the right place?  Currently both are recommended under “Using
> Guix Interactively”, which I think is more appropriate.  But maybe we
> should add a cross-reference?
> 
> To complement what zimoun wrote, the ‘.guile’ skeleton (that new home
> directories get by default) enables both when they’re installed.
> 
> All in all, I’m not sure anything’s missing.
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# have both guile-colorized or guile-readline already installed either via config.scm or guix install

$ guix shell -D guix help2man git strace --pure
~/src/guix [env]$

# perform ./bootstrap, configure and make

~/src/guix [env]$ ./pre-inst-env guix repl
scheme@(guix-user)> ;; does not have guile-colorized or guile-readline

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The inconvenient part here being having to do:

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CTRL-D
$ guix shell -D guix help2man git strace guile-colorized guile-readline --pure
~/src/guix [env]$

# continue with whatever task was being done before

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