[Aptitude-devel] Bug#649857: aptitude: Allow CLI install action flags in TUI

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: found -1 0.6.4-1.2
Control: severity -1 wishlist


Hi Michael,

2011-11-24 10:32 Michael Stummvoll:
>Package: aptitude
>
>Version: 0.6.4-1.2
>Severity: wishlist
>
>Hi,
>It would be a nice feature to allow the cli install action flags (_, -, +) on aptitude. May this could be made in the search-feature: if a action-char is append, aptitude does not jump to the next match but applies this action to all matches.

There is already a way to achieve this with limiting the view and
patterns.

You can limit the view with 'l' and a search pattern, and then in the
root of the subtree that matches, you can apply the action key to
perform the action on all packages from that subtree.

It needs a few extra keystrokes and may not be as quick for some
usecases, if you don't want to browse the packages at all.  But in that
case, maybe one can use the equivalent in the command line anyway.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>