Re: Guix Documentation Meetup

[Katherine Cox-Buday]

adriano <randomlooser@riseup.net> writes:

> Il giorno dom, 12/12/2021 alle 21.50 -0600, Katherine Cox-Buday ha scritto:

>> - In geiser, run =,a thing-i-want-to-look-for= (this is supposedly an
>> apropos command that is supposed to search symbols for you). The command
>> returns nothing.

> about this, I want to report an example
>
> scheme@(guile-user)> (help tail)
> Did not find any object named `tail'
> scheme@(guile-user)> 
>
> BUT
>
> scheme@(guile-user)> (help "tail") <-- notice the quotation marks !
> Documentation found for:

> That is, help with the quotation marks reports about things even if
> they're in namespaces you haven't imported yet !

Thank you very much for the tip! I will definitely be trying this next time I'm 
hacking on Guile!

-- 
Katherine