Re: Texinfo in descriptions?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès (2015-09-07 00:31 +0300) wrote:
>
>> Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> Ludovic Courtès (2015-09-06 16:51 +0300) wrote:
>>>
>>>> Alex: We should maybe disable the paragraph filling code in guix.el so
>>>> that it doesn’t mess up with formatting?
>>>
>>> I don't mind (if you remember I didn't actually like such filling¹, and
>>> I've never used it).  So we can change the default value of
>>> ‘guix-package-info-fill-heading’ variable.
>>
>> Yes, though ideally the elisp code would provide Scheme code the current
>> value of ‘fill-column’ so that text is filled using the right width.
>> WDYT?
>
> Do you mean that ‘package-description-string’ should take an optional
> 'fill-column' argument, so that it can be called from the elisp side?

Yes.

> If so, I'm afraid currently there is no way to have such fine tuning for
> the received package parameters.  The package (or generation) data is
> received all at once using ‘guix-get-entries’, for example:
>
> (guix-get-entries guix-current-profile 'package 'name '("r"))
> (guix-get-entries guix-current-profile 'generation 'last '(3))
>
> As you can see there is no place to specify fill-column there.  But I
> have noted this thing, perhaps it will become possible one day.

Oh I see.  Thanks for checking anyway.

Ludo’.