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

[Matthias Beyer]

So `nix do nix` would do nothing?

(Joke for the germans)

I like the idea of having `nix do`.

On 23-01-2016 17:11:15, Oliver Charles wrote:
> `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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Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Kind regards,
Matthias Beyer

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