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: List packages Status column terminology Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:07:33 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87bnzbi4ti.fsf@gmail.com> <87sisemfos.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390579668 27305 80.91.229.3 (24 Jan 2014 16:07:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:07:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: trentbuck@gmail.com (Trent W. Buck) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 24 17:07:54 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 1W6jIQ-0004bD-55 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 17:07:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47433 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6jIP-0002ga-Lg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:07:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35421) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6jIG-0002fg-0M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:07:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6jI6-0000G2-DO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:07:43 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:60737) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6jI6-0000Fb-9h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:07:34 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFsoXO9/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA2IQgbBLZEKA4hhnBmBXoMV X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFsoXO9/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA2IQgbBLZEKA4hhnBmBXoMV X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="45996762" Original-Received: from 108-161-115-189.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([108.161.115.189]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 24 Jan 2014 11:07:33 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 0FBEE603CD; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:07:33 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87sisemfos.fsf@gmail.com> (Trent W. Buck's message of "Fri, 24 Jan 2014 10:38:59 +1100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:169015 Archived-At: > For comparison, aptitude uses these terms: [...] > They appear horizontally as grouping elements in a tree view, > so they use up one line each instead of umpteen columns. That's a good presentation, since it saves a column (in exchange for a few extra lines). The downsides: - incompatible with "sort by name", where we want to see the various versions (built-in, obsolete, and new ones) together. - tabulated-list-mode doesn't support this, so it requires more coding work. Stefan