8 Popup Interface

If you ever used Magit, you know what “popup interface” is (see Magit-Popup User Manual). Even if you are not acquainted with Magit, there should be no worries as it is very intuitive.

So, M-x guix command provides a top-level popup interface for almost all the available Emacs-Guix commands. It has 2 advantages comparing with calling M-x guix-… commands directly:

• There is no need to remember the names of Emacs-Guix commands, as you can always find them in M-x guix and its sub-popups.
• It is faster (well, if you know what you are going to call), as it may serve as a shortcut. For example, instead of calling M-x guix-packages-by-name, you can press: M-x guix p n.

If you use M-x guix often, you may wish to bind it to some easy accessible key combination, for example, to super-g:

(global-set-key (kbd "s-g") 'guix)