From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jambunathan K Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: list-packages: Marking packages as "uninteresting"? Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 18:26:33 +0530 Message-ID: <81bolgxtku.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87bolmj37w.fsf@destructor.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337691431 30168 80.91.229.3 (22 May 2012 12:57:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 12:57:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , Jeremiah Dodds , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "T.V. 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V. Raman's message of "Tue, 22 May 2012 01:00:32 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.97 (windows-nt) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.210.41 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150607 Archived-At: > Enabling users to add a tag would be the most flexible approach. > > I am not a huge fan of categorization as a solution to all evils, > because it's basically a case of shoving things into drawers -- > and then later not knowing what drawer you stuck it into. Emacs > with incremental seach makes such things unnecessary:-) So if we > do categorize and collapse things based on catagorization, let's > implement that using invisibility specs since that works with > isearch --- so I wouldn't need to know if you stuck say > "org-mode" in the authoring drawer or the "gtd" drawer or > whatever, I'd just isearch for org and get it. > -- The only package that interests me are packages that I have already installed or packages that are new. I often use M-x customize-changed RET or use NEWS to "explore" new stuff. For example, M-x list-changed-packages RET could either prompt for a Emacs release or a timestamp and list packages that were modified in the intervening period. A PACKAGE-NEWS file could be introduced which is current archive-contents *together* with the *-readme.txt. Or There could be a sort option based on create/modify time. ps: I only wish that timestamps that I see in the below listing http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/?C=M;O=D give an idea of when a *particular* package was created/modified as opposed to when the package *tar* was published. Save for Org, all packages have "05-May-2012" has modified date. This is not that helpful for discovery. For example, I would have liked to know when 'csv-mode' made it's debut. --