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Re: display keywords in package.el
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: display keywords in package.el |
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Sat, 14 Dec 2013 15:03:15 -0500 |
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On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 10:38:25 -0500 Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> wrote:
TZ> On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 22:34:38 -0500 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> But there's nothing else in Emacs that will browse packages
>>> by keyword.
SM> We should fix this, by adding a "filter by keyword" option to
SM> package-list.
TZ> That's my plan, but finder.el already does this. It makes no sense to
TZ> keep two separate interfaces for browsing local-only (finder.el) and
TZ> local+remote packages (package.el). So I was going to implement it more
TZ> generally ASAP (when I have the time).
TZ> Meanwhile we can simply remove the button action for the keywords or
TZ> leave it broken. I opted to leave it broken temporarily because it's
TZ> a very "soft" failure and does not break anything AFAIK.
This is implemented properly now:
* `f' and a menu item will filter by keyword
* the header line shows "Package[keyword]" when the list is filtered
* `q' leaves the filtered view, kind of like finder
* only one level of filtering and one keyword are supported
* there is no keyword list menu like finder.el has
* remove finder.el dependency
* convenience `package-menu-filter-interactive' interactive function
(maybe it should be `list-packages-keyword'?)
* very handy `package--mapc' helper function added
Future work (please do it if you're interested):
* `package-menu--generate' could use `package--mapc'
* merge finder.el and package.el and remove the need for finder-inf.el
and the `finder-keywords-hash' and so on.
* keyword list menu like finder.el has
Let me know if you have issues...
Ted
- display keywords in package.el, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/12/09
- Re: display keywords in package.el, Jambunathan K, 2013/12/11
- Re: display keywords in package.el, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/12/11
- Re: display keywords in package.el, Jambunathan K, 2013/12/11
- Re: display keywords in package.el, Stefan Monnier, 2013/12/11
- Re: display keywords in package.el, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/12/12
- Re: display keywords in package.el,
Ted Zlatanov <=
- display keywords in package.el, T.V. Raman, 2013/12/15
- Re: display keywords in package.el, Stefan Monnier, 2013/12/15
- Re: display keywords in package.el, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/12/16