lix/doc/manual/rl-next/repl-doc-command.md
Jade Lovelace 272db8af1b doc: add release note credits and categories for all the changes in Lix
This does not add missing release notes, and it doesn't do anything
about the profiles feature we would really like to have so we can have
consistent credit.

Change-Id: I72a6f7acfcff85f380be17dac76501a6f4693776
2024-05-15 14:33:35 -07:00

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synopsis: Experimental REPL support for documentation comments using `:doc`
cls: 564
category: Features
credits: [Lunaphied, jade]
significance: significant
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Using `:doc` in the REPL now supports showing documentation comments when defined on a function.
Previously this was only able to document builtins, however it now will show comments defined on a lambda as well.
This support is experimental and relies on an embedded version of [nix-doc](https://github.com/lf-/nix-doc).
The logic also supports limited Markdown formatting of doccomments and should easily support any [RFC 145](https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0145-doc-strings.md)
compatible documentation comments in addition to simple commented documentation.