On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:50:54PM +0100, Jiri Palecek <[email protected]> was heard to say: > On Saturday 24 January 2009 16:48:33 Daniel Burrows wrote: > > Source: aptitude > > Source-Version: 0.5.1-1 > > > - Incremental search should work again in the curses UI. > > (Closes: #506651) > > I don't know if this is really fixed. I tried searching "apti" and it showed > aptitude-gtk, and further searches (with "n" key) were unsuccessful.
Looks like "/" works, but "n" is broken for some reason. I wonder if it's not using prefix patterns. > Moreover, I think it is very user hostile to search in the description by > default. For example, if the user searches for "aptitude" and gets to the > package "daptup", (s)he'll be probably very disappointed, because there is no > easy clue to distinguish this from a failed search. If there was some sort of > highlighting that would show what actually matched, things would have been > much better. Maybe. Other people think it's user hostile to *not* search in the description by default. Personally, I think the big problem is that the curses UI presents an unusably large list and the user has to use searching to navigate it, which sort of works if you search on names and the user happens to sort of know the name of their package... Probably I'll have to either make "/" in the curses UI search names instead of descriptions, or change the UI to match the GTK+ UI more closely (but I don't think I have time to do that and make it right). Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
