From 23e77eedc8e8dcc7e79069e98e60852b93692575 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sammi Johnson <sambjohnson94@protonmail.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2025 13:47:00 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] add snow-chibi default configuration file instructions

---
 doc/chibi.scrbl | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/chibi.scrbl b/doc/chibi.scrbl
index ab02a3b4..da40d317 100755
--- a/doc/chibi.scrbl
+++ b/doc/chibi.scrbl
@@ -1444,6 +1444,26 @@ loading (since it loads many libraries) - if you have any difficulties
 with image files on your platform you can run
 \command{snow-chibi --noimage} to disable this feature.
 
+\subsection{Snow Configuration}
+
+Snow is configured in the file $HOME/.snow/config.scm, requiring at the
+bare minimum an empty alist:
+\schemeblock{
+()
+;; (()) would also work
+}
+
+Note that the empty list is \emph{not} quoted! This file is not evaluated,
+but is simply read as an alist of configurations. A more common example,
+for use with packaging your own code, may look like this:
+
+\schemeblock{
+((authors "Alysssa P. Hacker <aphacker@mit.edu>")
+ (maintainers "Alyssa P. Hacker <aphacker@mit.edu>, Eva Luator <eluator@mit.edu")
+ (license agpl)) ;; or gpl mit bsd etc.
+}
+
+
 \subsubsection{Querying Packages and Status}
 
 By default \scheme{snow-chibi} looks for packages in the public

From 1103ae965034629601608332dd4a710419d8c27c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sammi Johnson <sambjohnson94@protonmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 14:54:15 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] rm possibly unsafe empty example config, link to
 snow-fort docs

---
 doc/chibi.scrbl | 16 +++++-----------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/chibi.scrbl b/doc/chibi.scrbl
index da40d317..e832b481 100755
--- a/doc/chibi.scrbl
+++ b/doc/chibi.scrbl
@@ -1446,17 +1446,11 @@ with image files on your platform you can run
 
 \subsection{Snow Configuration}
 
-Snow is configured in the file $HOME/.snow/config.scm, requiring at the
-bare minimum an empty alist:
-\schemeblock{
-()
-;; (()) would also work
-}
-
-Note that the empty list is \emph{not} quoted! This file is not evaluated,
-but is simply read as an alist of configurations. A more common example,
-for use with packaging your own code, may look like this:
-
+Snow is configured in the file $HOME/.snow/config.scm. A common example,
+for use with packaging your own code, may look like the one below:
+(Note that the empty list is \emph{not} quoted! This file is not evaluated,
+but is simply read as an alist of configurations. See
+https://snow-fort.org/doc/author/ for more details.)
 \schemeblock{
 ((authors "Alysssa P. Hacker <aphacker@mit.edu>")
  (maintainers "Alyssa P. Hacker <aphacker@mit.edu>, Eva Luator <eluator@mit.edu")