On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 04:05:52PM +0100, "r.ductor" <[email protected]> was 
heard to say:
> search 
>  Searches for packages matching one of the patterns supplied on the command 
> line.
>  All packages which match any of the given patterns will be displayed; 
>  for instance, “aptitude search ´~N´ edit” will list all “new” packages and 
> all packages whose name contains “edit”. 
>  For more information on search patterns, see the section “Search Patterns” 
> in the aptitude reference manual. 

  The above command-line searches for two patterns: "~N" and "edit".

> Long form             Short form       Description
> ?and(term1, term2)    term1 term2      Select any package that matches both 
> term1 and term2. 

  This would be one pattern: "~N edit".

  Daniel



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