Re: How to package inputrc

[Efraim Flashner]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 09:30:31PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 11:26:59AM -0600, Jesse Gibbons wrote:
> > > In order to achieve this more elegant I could write a simple service to
> > > copy the file to /etc. Another option would be a small package.
> > 
> > I like the service idea a lot better. It appears to me that Guix is 
> > designed for services to deal with the more customizable parts of the 
> > installation, whereas packages are standard. /etc/inputrc is one of those 
> > things each system admin would want to customize, just like most of the 
> > things in /etc.
> 
> I'll go ahead and link to my os-release service here. It's a small
> service that creates an /etc/os-release file. The service in action¹ and
> the actual service itself. It would also be possible to create an even
> simpler file than the one I made here², with something like this:
> 
> (define %inputrc
>   (plain-file "inputrc"
>               "set show-mode-in-prompt on\n"
>               "set enable-bracketed-paste on\n"
>               "set editing-mode vi\n"
>               "Control-l: clear-screen\n"
>               "set bell-style visible\n"))

The above wouldn't actually work. It needs a string-append or to not be
multiple strings.


> ¹ https://gitlab.com/Efraim/guix-config/-/blob/master/E5400_config.scm#L68
> ² https://gitlab.com/Efraim/guix-config/-/blob/master/config/os-release.scm
> 
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