Re: Bug#252481: apt-utils.el: swelling emacs memory use
>>>>> 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
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