From 6acff0f90069898bac69a49cfa173725bd6b9e6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:33:07 +0100 Subject: gnu: the-silver-searcher: Fix & improve description. * gnu/packages/code.scm (the-silver-searcher)[description]: Fix typo, use @command and @file mark-up, and clarify a bit. --- gnu/packages/code.scm | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'gnu/packages/code.scm') diff --git a/gnu/packages/code.scm b/gnu/packages/code.scm index 061ec27b80..f91fdab153 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/code.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/code.scm @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2015 Andreas Enge ;;; Copyright © 2015 Ricardo Wurmus ;;; Copyright © 2016 Efraim Flashner +;;; Copyright © 2017 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; @@ -209,9 +210,11 @@ COCOMO model or user-provided parameters.") (home-page "http://geoff.greer.fm/ag/") (synopsis "Fast code searching tool") (description - "The silver searcher, or 'ag', is tool for quickly searching through -files, but compared to grep is much faster and respects files like .gitignore, -.hgignore, etc.") + "The Silver Searcher (@command{ag}) is a tool for quickly searching large +numbers of files. It's intended primarily for source code repositories, and +respects files like @file{.gitignore} and @file{.hgignore}. It's also an order +of magnitude faster than its inspiration, @command{ack}, and less specialised +tools such as @command{grep}.") (license license:asl2.0))) (define-public trio -- cgit v1.2.3