[Synaptic-devel] Re: apt/synaptic improvements

[Mike Snitzer]

On Wed, Jan 29 2003 at 13:41,
Gustavo Niemeyer <address@hidden> wrote:

> > capablilites.  All I can find is searching for the initial letters in a 
> > word.  For instance, searching for 'ps' gives me psutils, but not a2ps.  I 
> > would like
> >
> > 1. To search for any characters in a package name
> > 2. To search for any characters in a description
> 
> Michael Vogt has already fixed this in the latest synaptic release.

Using synaptic v0.32 I can't search for any characters in the package
name; all that seems to work is sequential searches from the start of the
package name.

The search filter doesn't appear to be able to accomodate regular
expressions; I don't know if it should or if its planned? if matching for
a particular pattern, anywhere in the package name is a possibilty how is
this feature made available to the user?

As a side note:  when I try to add a "New" filter in the "Filters..."
creation window; it creates a filter named 'A New Filter' (disregarding
the name I wanted it to be).  After I create the filter accordingly; I
click Save; and exit the "Filters..." window.  I then attempt to make use
of my newly created filter and when I do synaptic crashes.  Are custom
filters unsupported at this point?

Thanks for any insight,
Mike

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