* grammar and readability edits

Co-authored-by: Henrik <[email protected]>

removing broken link for writing expressions

(second attempt)

Add note about using nix show-derivation instead

show-derivation -> derivation show

It looks like the command `nix show-derivation` is deprecated in favor of `nix derivation show`
...

Solve a discrepancy in pill 7.7

Solve the discrepancy between the code and its description

- tense corrections e.g. "did dive" -> "dived"
- pluralisation corrections
- "is not a special...

Pill 8 update

Pill10

Co-authored-by: Zach Mitchell, PhD <[email protected]>

updated tarball version and small change to indentation.

removed and reduced use of with.

now using derivation instead of pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation

renaming to mkDerivation

not tested

to avoid collision & confusion with standard function.

NB Darwin variant still outstanding.

* with removed from first line

example no longer starts with with (import <nixpkgs> {});

* add...

removing installation instructions

Pill 13: Fix typo in repository derivation snippet

Pill 20: allow wrapped hello to be executed

As written, this produces a script without the execute bit
set, which may confuse users who want...

Pill 17: fix asciidoc-full name

Attempting to build this as specified in the current docs
fails with the error:

nix-repl> :b pk...

Pill 17: fix graphviz xorg override

In the current version of nix, overriding `xorg = null;`
no longer seems to work; overriding the...

The Darwin nix still assigns to `binutils`, even though the
builder itself was updated to point ...

Instead refering to original link which links to the
Nix manual.

Use HTTPS links in 8th pill

HTTPS is safer.

Output of declare -xp is no longer visible in the repl

Add EPUB link

The pills are now fully ported so we can drop that line.
Also fix list of DocBook elements link ...

You can get it by running `nix-build release.nix -A epub`

It was not actually used because we did not pass it the manual.

And if we fix it by replacing t...

Fix link to reference to config.nix again

In 2815ca0fab63b1a93be6417ff77822e530c4ddfe I accidentally changed a config.nix link to point to...

Fix links to nixpkgs source

Link to today's permalink at github instead of master. The fix function was moved from trivial.n...

Link to today's permalink at github instead of master. When this was originally written, ~/.nixp...

Clarify how lazy evaluation helps to escape infinite co-recursion.

Fix some code samples referring to binutils

`b` is already defined in section 4.7 if the user follows along in the repl

update GC pill to not mention gcroots/profiles

Fix pill 12 derivations so that PNG support works

Fixes: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/34745

Checked with `linkchecker --config=<(echo '[AnchorCheck]') --check-extern result/share/doc/nix-p...

Update links to new nix manual structure

Co-authored-by: lewo <[email protected]>

In pill 13 `callPackage` and `pkgs` are defined co-recursively. The
author notes thas this is po...

Currently, "1.2. Rationale for this series" starts out with the following sentence, which seems ...

* Minor typos in pill 9

Co-authored-by: John Ericson <[email protected]>

Make command output coherent with its text description.

.travis.yml: drop non-working travis-ci integration

All new pull requests get stuck in Travis CI checks since
last year. Let's drop Travis CI integr...

Command 'nix-store -q --referrers `which hello`' should list two
environments as described in th...

This was removed in 2013 from nix v1.6. Don't point readers of the
pills towards a link that no ...

Instead nix-store --read-log can be used to see the environment variables.

If a user follows along in the repl, the error won't occur as in section 4.6 the number 4 is ass...

missing word in 09

Fixed minor typos in 04

06: typo

Typo fix: nix-repl -> nix repl