On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 10:38:17AM -0400, Mike McGuire wrote:
> Ian Perry wrote:
> > The '/' key is helpful in searching for a string in the package name, but it
> > will not search the descriptions of the packages. I seem to remember in a
> > previous version (even before slink) that it used to do this.
>
> Hm. Not quite what you were looking for, but 'apt-cache search' does
> this. As long as apt knows about packages, and if dselect uses apt as
> its get method or whatever, it does. As for searching descriptions in
> dselect, I'd like to know too. I'm surprised one of the dselect
> evangelists hasn't piped up on this yet... ;)
Well, if you want one of us to do so ... :)
It'll work in dselect version 1.10 (not yet released). Here's part of
the documentation:
Searching and sorting
The list of packages can be searched by package name.
This is done by pressing '/', and typing a simple search
string. The string is interpreted as a regex(7) regular
expression. If you add '/d' to the search expression,
dselect will also search in descriptions.
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
