From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jeremiah Dodds Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: list-packages: Marking packages as "uninteresting"? Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 10:23:47 -0400 Message-ID: <87bolmj37w.fsf@destructor.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337264827 22942 80.91.229.3 (17 May 2012 14:27:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 14:27:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "T.V. Raman" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 17 16:27:05 2012 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 1SV1f6-00011Y-B9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 May 2012 16:26:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54408 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SV1f5-0005gi-G1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 May 2012 10:26:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44128) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SV1ey-0005fa-M3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2012 10:26:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SV1es-00073L-AG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2012 10:26:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gg0-f169.google.com ([209.85.161.169]:61827) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SV1es-00071u-3k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2012 10:26:26 -0400 Original-Received: by ggm4 with SMTP id 4so2253386ggm.0 for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 07:26:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=50C9AVuHPj8ZfPwS2lBVcyDNfhvnlDPh9GOJItmiaBM=; b=UWxuzQ2ucIggqQlwzJfCy0LkO7SS0EGR3QK+KYl4Kpiz42Evd5/8swmGRmK4+r3/W1 ph8JpwQY08H5jw/7v6YugHXcgMxo4rYIKexZk52qSUjsEwhP38wb/x1qMhv0EElzCWu0 J2q+/u9VmKb7l4Y5PbEvdnOyuIPAYtCb4PsVElFj2gZa2ESMzG0LX59z68VE7Xlnd4gi mfOkfBGDdhG4Kx5gXZyicIM1JnVYjhXWlsAXtW45keSiCwZ9gF3TmS0g4YRsrIqDPXHp ZFiOGdGcO+KAI4QoJ9ovCAf1+43mpHf61WMB54icKpchyUctu025Qi50hDVp1sfxqQf6 Usig== Original-Received: by 10.50.88.201 with SMTP id bi9mr5715878igb.27.1337264783481; Thu, 17 May 2012 07:26:23 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from destructor (adsl-76-244-152-94.dsl.akrnoh.sbcglobal.net. [76.244.152.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id nz4sm5919758igc.14.2012.05.17.07.26.20 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 17 May 2012 07:26:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (T. V. Raman's message of "Wed, 9 May 2012 10:42:35 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.161.169 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:150550 Archived-At: "T.V. Raman" writes: > This is mostly a simple feature request: > > Right now list-packages presents a giant list of packages, with > available packages listed first -- followed by all the installed > packages. > > This also means that every time you bring it up, you end up > looking through packages you've decided are not interesting to > you --- would be possible to add the ability to mark packages as > "uninteresting" and have them bubble down to the bottom of the > list? They'd always be available in the packages buffer and you > could even find them with isearch -- they'd just not clutter up > the list and make it possibly to see what new packages have > shown up. I'd personally much rather see efforts put toward collapsible package categorization than simple filtering. If you wanted to go that route though, there are existing emacs packages that have similar behavior, gnus off the top of my head.