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Re: Manual consistency


From: George Clemmer
Subject: Re: Manual consistency
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2020 16:56:24 -0400
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zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

> (from: http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/41253#10)
>
> On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 18:36, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> > There are many examples in guix.texi with $, and also many without. Plus
>> > some with # as the command line prompt.

>> I’ve come to the conclusion that snippets that contain only input should
>> be written without a prompt, for easier copy/pasting.

> I propose to do a pass on that:
>  - apply this rule: no-$ for only input and $ to distinguish between
> inputs and outputs.

+1.

For examples w/ outputs, how about also removing the $ and commenting
the outputs with '# ', or '# > '?

HTH - George



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