On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:42:50PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:20:12 -0400 > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I like synaptic's GUI much better than aptitude's ncurses interface. If I > > want to see all the packages whose names start with vim, In synaptic all I > > do is type vim. I could not find a simple way of doing this in aptitude. > > What about '/' (opens the regex search bar) followed by '^vim' <enter>? >
You need to open a Flat Package List from the Views menu, then press 'l' to enter a 'Limit' regep. I usually do this from the shell, though: aptitude search '^vim' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
