Andrew Malcolmson wrote: > 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'
Both the methods work. Thanks for pointing it out. One less annoyance with aptitude. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
