From 037d5c4299354508cd33c0c5e5c382d7dd2431e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eelco Dolstra Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 12:43:44 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Manual improvements Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin --- doc/manual/src/command-ref/env-common.md | 2 +- src/libcmd/common-eval-args.cc | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/manual/src/command-ref/env-common.md b/doc/manual/src/command-ref/env-common.md index 6947dbf4c..34a3179a8 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/command-ref/env-common.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/command-ref/env-common.md @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Most Nix commands interpret the following environment variables: `nix-shell`. It can have the values `pure` or `impure`. - [`NIX_PATH`]{#env-NIX_PATH}\ - A colon-separated list of directories used to look up Nix + A colon-separated list of directories used to look up the location of Nix expressions enclosed in angle brackets (i.e., ``), e.g. `/home/eelco/Dev:/etc/nixos`. It can be extended using the `-I` option. For more information about the semantics of the Nix diff --git a/src/libcmd/common-eval-args.cc b/src/libcmd/common-eval-args.cc index 2c94d7e6c..53595cea6 100644 --- a/src/libcmd/common-eval-args.cc +++ b/src/libcmd/common-eval-args.cc @@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ MixEvalArgs::MixEvalArgs() .shortName = 'I', .description = R"( Add *path* to the Nix search path. The Nix search path is - initialized from the colon-separated `NIX_PATH` environment - variable, and is used to look up Nix expressions enclosed in angle + initialized from the colon-separated [`NIX_PATH`](./env-common.md#env-NIX_PATH) environment + variable, and is used to look up the location of Nix expressions using [paths](../language/values.md#type-path) enclosed in angle brackets (i.e., ``). For instance, if the Nix search path consists of the entries