- For example, I think it would be nice if the columns displayed by
`list-packages' were customizable. A user might want to increase the
width of the "Version" column, so that not every GNU-devel ELPA version
is truncated, or they might want to add an "Author" column. We could
even allow third-party packages to add columns such as "Downloads" or
"Stars".
FWIW, I've been using these for a while now:
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("NGD" . "https://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu-devel/"))
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/"))
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("EGD" . "https://elpa.gnu.org/devel/"))
(custom-set-variables
'(package-name-column-width 22)
'(package-archive-column-width 2)
'(package-status-column-width 2)
'(package-version-column-width 2))
The result isn't perfect, but it lets me see the parts I care about in an ~80 column window with 5 different archives. The main motivation I had was that the names of _many_ packages were non-uniquely truncated by default. This would be hard to pull off without severely truncating the version column.
Hope that helps,
~Chad