Re: Apt-Get or Aptitude

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:36:07PM +0100, Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net> was heard to say:
> 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:
> [...]
> > > 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)]
> 
> Great!  I look forward to that hitting etch.

  It won't, but it should be in lenny already.

  Daniel