From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xue Fuqiao Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: About `r' and `g' in Package Menu mode Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 06:33:52 +0800 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87wqg73qjz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87txbbzxhw.fsf@gnu.org> <877g87u5yu.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1394145263 8590 80.91.229.3 (6 Mar 2014 22:34:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 22:34:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 06 23:34:32 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1WLgs1-0001JK-Oo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 23:34:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60944 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WLgs1-00058h-5o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 17:34:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47362) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WLgrk-00058N-7N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 17:34:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WLgre-0002W3-A5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 17:34:12 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37759) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WLgre-0002Vy-40 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 17:34:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WLgra-0000pI-Tx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 23:34:02 +0100 Original-Received: from 123.114.125.102 ([123.114.125.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 23:34:02 +0100 Original-Received: from xfq by 123.114.125.102 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 23:34:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 123.114.125.102 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kfaEK3p+ZAbGBk5TyuyS//ZhdhI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96281 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > Hi! Hi Tassilo, >> In the `Package' menu (of Package Menu mode), there are two similar >> entries: >> >> * Refresh Package List r >> * Update Package List g >> >> Are there any differences between them? > > I think the main difference is that `r' will download the archive > contents again, whereas `g' only rebuilds the tabulated list of packages > that have been downloaded previously. > > So use `r' to check if some archive contains updated packages, and use > `g' for example to revert the install/delete marks you've made in the > buffer. I see. Thanks for your explanation. -- http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/