6.2 Invoking guix edit

So many packages, so many source files! The guix edit command facilitates the life of packagers by pointing their editor at the source file containing the definition of the specified packages. For instance:

guix edit gcc-4.8 vim

launches the program specified in the EDITOR environment variable to edit the recipe of GCC 4.8.4 and that of Vim.

If you are using Emacs, note that the Emacs user interface provides similar functionality in the “package info” and “package list” buffers created by M-x guix-search-by-name and similar commands (see Emacs Commands).