From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#29420: 26.0; doc of `list-packages' Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 16:52:43 +0200 Message-ID: <838tevafus.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511535252 28436 195.159.176.226 (24 Nov 2017 14:54:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 14:54:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 29420@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 24 15:54:08 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eIFMl-00074p-Mt for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2017 15:54:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49689 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eIFMt-0003yp-5W for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2017 09:54:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39009) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eIFMl-0003x9-0w for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2017 09:54:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eIFMg-0005DL-4s for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2017 09:54:07 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:46211) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eIFMg-0005DH-2S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2017 09:54:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eIFMf-0000oK-RM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2017 09:54:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 14:54:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 29420 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 29420-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B29420.15115352033063 (code B ref 29420); Fri, 24 Nov 2017 14:54:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 29420) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Nov 2017 14:53:23 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54892 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eIFM3-0000nL-3E for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2017 09:53:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47849) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eIFM1-0000n9-Gh for 29420@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2017 09:53:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eIFLr-0004z1-6S for 29420@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2017 09:53:16 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60493) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eIFLr-0004yp-2w; Fri, 24 Nov 2017 09:53:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2955 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eIFLp-0006Fu-AE; Fri, 24 Nov 2017 09:53:10 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Drew Adams on Thu, 23 Nov 2017 18:05:57 -0800 (PST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:140307 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 18:05:57 -0800 (PST) > From: Drew Adams > > `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.