On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:31:12PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > 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)] wow! talk about awesome dev response time! that was so fast its in the past! whoosh... A
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