lix/doc/manual/rl-next/short-expr-flag.md
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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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reintroduce shortened `-E` form for `--expr` to new CLI 605 Lunaphied Improvements

In the old CLI, it was possible to supply a shorter -E flag instead of fully specifying --expr every time you wished to provide an expression that would be evaluated to produce the given command's input. This was retained for the --file flag when the new CLI utilities were written with -f, but -E was dropped.

We now restore the -E short form for better UX. This is most useful for nix eval but most any command that takes an Installable argument should benefit from it as well.