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Re: Missing and out-of-date information in guile.1, the Guile man page
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Andy Wingo |
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Re: Missing and out-of-date information in guile.1, the Guile man page |
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Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:54:56 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Mark,
I updated the man page. I don't really know groff though, so please reply
with comments (text appended).
On Mon 17 Jan 2011 00:23, Mark Harig <address@hidden> writes:
> - There is no description in the Guile manual page,
> guile.1, or the Guile Reference Manual, guile.info*, of
> the environment variable GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE.
I think that's OK to not have it in the man page, though it should be in
the manual.
> - The reference manual also briefly mentions the
> environment variable GUILE_HISTORY (it describes the
> default value as `.guile_history', but does not mention
> its default location, presumably $HOME, correct?), but
> the manual page does not mention it.
Yes, it does put it in $HOME, though argually it should go in .local or
.cache or something.
I'm also OK with the man page not mentioning this, FWIW.
> - Is there an environment variable that can specify the
> name of the Guile initialization file (default: .guile)?
Nope. You can use -q and -l though.
> - Are there any other environment variables that are not
> documented in the Guile Reference Manual?
Yes. Would you like to submit a patch documenting them? Feel free to
ask on the list about what they mean, if the meanings are not clear :)
> - For comparison, the Emacs manual includes a section
> describing the environment variables that may effect it
> when it is invoked. See the Info node "(emacs)
> Environment" (a subsection of the appendix "Invoking
> Emacs").
Would be good to add to Guile as well.
Cheers,
Andy
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Re: Missing and out-of-date information in guile.1, the Guile man page, Andy Wingo, 2011/01/24