From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 21:25:23 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1424053551 5092 80.91.229.3 (16 Feb 2015 02:25:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 02:25:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: Artur Malabarba Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 16 03:25:45 2015 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 1YNBNY-0005ex-Cu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Feb 2015 03:25:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37266 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YNBNX-0002Se-Iw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2015 21:25:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34259) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YNBNU-0002SY-06 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2015 21:25:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YNBNQ-0000C9-EW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2015 21:25:39 -0500 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:47784) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YNBNQ-0000C4-6G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2015 21:25:36 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id t1G2PX0a017095; Sun, 15 Feb 2015 21:25:33 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 69DFE1648; Sun, 15 Feb 2015 21:25:23 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Artur Malabarba's message of "Sun, 15 Feb 2015 22:38:13 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5218=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9393 : core <5218> : inlines <2184> : streams <1390953> : uri <1856245> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 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:183136 Archived-At: > 1. The package list is ginormous and growing. > 2. There are duplicate entries galore. > 3. There's no useful sense of categories. (we have keywords,but see below). > 4. Are there other points that people feel can be improved? Indeed, that's a known problem. > I can see myself writing something to improve 2. Great, go for it. > Any solution for 3 would also be a solution for 1, but I'm not sure what > that would be. 1 and 3 are pretty closely related and are the main issue for me. My best idea so far would be to write a "filter" command which would work as follow: - you type in the minibuffer some word - the word is matched against the packages's descriptions and keywords. - as you type the word, the list of packages gets filtered to only those that match. - as you type the word, a list of possible completions is displayed, in icompletion-mode style. Stefan