From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: List packages Status column terminology Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 10:26:57 +0530 Message-ID: <87bnzbi4ti.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389934649 9690 80.91.229.3 (17 Jan 2014 04:57:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 04:57:29 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 17 05:57:32 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W41Up-0004gi-9g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 05:57:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36213 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W41Uo-0001HE-SO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:57:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32799) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W41Uf-0001H4-HK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:57:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W41UU-0007un-KJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:57:21 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38428) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W41UU-0007uU-D5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:57:10 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W41US-000493-Ka for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 05:57:08 +0100 Original-Received: from 122.167.118.126 ([122.167.118.126]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 05:57:08 +0100 Original-Received: from nsivaram.net by 122.167.118.126 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 05:57:08 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 122.167.118.126 User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.130007 (Ma Gnus v0.7) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BQDjd6jFWmzkl+XBzEMT9qjioqk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:168590 Archived-At: When you do M-x list-packages, you get the package listings like --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- zone-matrix 0.0.1 available Matrix themed Zone mode zoom-frm 20140101.56 available Commands to zoom frame zossima 20121123.... available Ruby from Emacs zotelo 20130428.604 available Manage Zotero collections all 1.0 installed Edit all lines matching a git-commit-mode 20140110.833 installed Major mode for editing git commit --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Why use the word 'available' instead of 'install'? The fact that I invoked list-packages itself means that the package is available on elpa and the only logical statuses are 'install/installed' for any particular row. i.e as below, preferably in a different face colour? --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- zone-matrix 0.0.1 install Matrix themed Zone mode zoom-frm 20140101.56 install Commands to zoom frame zossima 20121123.... install Ruby from Emacs zotelo 20130428.604 install Manage Zotero collections all 1.0 installed Edit all lines matching a git-commit-mode 20140110.833 installed Major mode for editing git commit --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- sivaram --