[Nix-dev] Notes and ideas about the Nix-UI proposal

[Oliver Charles]

`nix do`? :)

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 4:59 PM Matthias Beyer <mail at beyermatthias.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 23-01-2016 17:39:09, Christian Theune wrote:
> >
> > I like the direction where this is going a lot. A big +1 from my side.
>
> Same here.
>
> >
> > As a suggestion to the transactional behaviour, I’d like to avoid
> unnecessary shell quoting. How about “+” instead of “;"? I could imagine
> another non-colliding operator from the nix language, but “;” as a
> statement separator is going to be confusing because bash already uses it
> for almost the same thing.
> >
>
> I want to second this! Especially because "\" is kinda hard to type on
> german
> keyboards (two strokes and a weird location of both keys, ergonomically).
> "+"
> sounds much better.
>
> What would be nice is a "repl"-like thing where you can do this:
>
>     nix transaction
>     > install firefox
>     > uninstall chromium
>     > commit  ## or maybe ctrl-D
>     [nix] transaction about to be committed... doing things now
>
> (ofc, the `nix install firefox $sep uninstall chromium` variant should be
> available as well)
>
> --
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
> Kind regards,
> Matthias Beyer
>
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