>>>>> Dan Jacobson writes: > Well, simple users wouldn't remember to hit Q when finished to > clean up or whatever.
In which case what can I do to help them? > I was hoping for something like M-x man: highly sensitive to what > the cursor is upon for giving defaults when asking things in the > minibuffer. Well if you are on a package link, pressing RET (apt-utils-follow-link) will follow it, no questions asked. If you press s (apt-utils-show-package), the link at point, if any, will be the default minibuffer input. You will have to provide me with specific behaviour that you think can be improved. > And mainly "no long green meter pegging in the little square at the > bottom of my screen" upon starting. I have no idea what you mean here. > Also, lets say the names you were keeping track of were just names > of files in some large directory. It seems how emacs treats those > isn't as "filling" as they say in beer ads, however I'm just going > by feel, never took measurements. Ditto. > Anyway, all I know is for one or two apt-cache searches or whatever > a day, the command line version is for me--no big investment for > one shot use. Fine. To conveniently explore package dependencies (normal and reverse), and for package name/file searches, my admittedly biased opinion is that apt-utils.el is quite useful. > Cc'ing to the list just to spark up things. However as no computer > pro perhaps I'm off my rocker and apt-utils-show-package is just > right for power users. I would hope that it has broader appeal than that. Matt
