From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 29420@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29420: 26.0; doc of `list-packages'
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 16:52:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838tevafus.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eb6a7e65-28f5-4a3a-86af-c4cca01e0427@default> (message from Drew Adams on Thu, 23 Nov 2017 18:05:57 -0800 (PST))
> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 18:05:57 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
> `C-h f list-packages' should give you a better description of the
> display that results. It wouldn't hurt to succinctly describe each
> column.
I added the list of columns.
> `C-h r g package menu' should give you a better description. It should
> describe each column of the display.
It does that already.
> It could describe column `status' better, for instance. Apparently
> one of the possible values is `dependency', but that is not
> mentioned.
Patches to improve the documentation of package.el in the manual are
most welcome. I generally find its documentation inadequate and
outdated, and tried to improve that as best I could, but I don't know
enough about it to do a better job, and apparently (and sadly) no one
else is interested.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-24 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-24 2:05 bug#29420: 26.0; doc of `list-packages' Drew Adams
2017-11-24 14:52 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-10-19 2:04 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-19 5:25 ` Drew Adams
2019-10-19 6:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-20 15:42 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-20 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-21 23:43 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-22 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-23 14:57 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-23 15:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-11 14:53 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-14 11:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15 3:38 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-15 1:27 ` Stefan Kangas
[not found] <<eb6a7e65-28f5-4a3a-86af-c4cca01e0427@default>
[not found] ` <<838tevafus.fsf@gnu.org>
2017-11-24 17:02 ` Drew Adams
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