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lf- / nix-doc

An interactive Nix documentation tool providing a CLI for function search, a Nix plugin for docs in the REPL, and a ctags implementation for Nix script

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project rename? #18

Closed nrdxp closed 3 years ago

nrdxp commented 3 years ago

I was going to start a similar project a few months back, but started a new gig and haven't had any time to work on it. I'd like to offer up the name I was using for that repo (which I never published). The reason I suggest this is because the current name is dangerously similar to the (seemingly) abandoned nixdoc making discoverability difficult.

So I propose the name dox

lf- commented 3 years ago

I'm not interested in renaming this project in general as I understand this project appears higher in search and is relatively clear it's separate based on its description. I'm also not a particular fan of that name:

it's not clearly associated with Nix
it has extremely unfortunate denotation outside of computing: it's used to refer to the practice of nonconsensual publishing of (especially marginalized people's) private details as a silencing tactic

nrdxp commented 3 years ago

No worries just a suggestion, as I'm not going to be using it anymore. Thanks for this awesome project :pray: