Re: Apt-Get or Aptitude
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:53:46AM +0100, Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net> was heard to say:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 05:22:16PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
>
> [...]
> > aptitude is by far one of the best package management tools out
> > there. Newbies and folks really stuck in the graphic-oriented/desktop
> > user world may like synaptic better, but for just getting things done
> > -- aptitude wins hands down, almost all the time.
>
> I do agree! Just occasionally, I fire up synaptic to browse a category,
> say stuff to do with sound, or mail for example. It is slightly easier
> in synaptic to browse than it is in aptitude. And I wish you could
> reverse direction in mid-search in aptitude. I often race past a
> relevant match by being too quick on the "n". If only "b" for back or
> "p" for previous or "N" or whatever switched the direction without
> having to reenter the search using \ or page up enough times to probably
> pass whatever it was you didn't quite see...
changeset: 604:42378273c12b
user: Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@alumni.brown.edu>
date: Sat Mar 10 16:46:30 2007 +0000
summary: [aptitude @ Add a keyboard command bound to 'N' that repeats the last search in the opposite direction (Closes: #414020, #397880)]
Daniel
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