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Create nixpkgs-help #119593

Open deliciouslytyped opened 3 years ago

deliciouslytyped commented 3 years ago

nixos-help and using w3m like in the installation iso tty, is described in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/d600f006643e074c2ef1d72e462e218b647a096c/nixos/modules/misc/documentation.nix

We should create commands for the other manuals as well and xref them in the manuals.

(fwiw, I tried to search for similar issues but the keywords didn't filter very far)

I probably wont get around to this for a while, so if anyone wants to pick it up that would be great.

deliciouslytyped commented 3 years ago

See also https://discourse.nixos.org/t/does-something-like-nixos-help-exist-for-the-nix-or-nixpkgs-manuals/2705

deliciouslytyped commented 3 years ago

If things can be properly rendered, it would also be good to render them as man pages and/or pdf.