[Aptitude-devel] Bug#941250: aptitude: On 'search' set 'select' line in a fixed position (in the middle) and scroll list instead.

[Bac0n]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.12-1
Severity: wishlist

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-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm-256color
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.8.12
Compiler: g++ 9.2.1 20190821
Compiled against:
  apt version 5.0.2
  NCurses version 6.1
  libsigc++ version: 2.10.1
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 6.1.20190803
  cwidget version: 0.5.18
  Apt version: 5.0.2

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffee19fd000)
	libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007f1458924000)
	libncursesw.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007f14588e9000)
	libtinfo.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6 (0x00007f14588b9000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f14588b0000)
	libcwidget.so.4 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.4 (0x00007f14587aa000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f1458686000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.67.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.67.0 (0x00007f1458666000)
	libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007f145844d000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f145842c000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f1458253000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f145810e000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f14580f4000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f1457f32000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f1457f1a000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f1457efd000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f1457eea000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f1457ec1000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f1457ea2000)
	libzstd.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzstd.so.1 (0x00007f1457df8000)
	libudev.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 (0x00007f1457dcd000)
	libsystemd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.so.0 (0x00007f1457d26000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f1458f74000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f1457d21000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f1457d16000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f1457d0b000)
	libgcrypt.so.20 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20 (0x00007f1457bee000)
	libgpg-error.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so.0 (0x00007f1457bcb000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.3.0-rc5-amd64 (SMP w/3 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US (charmap=locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.8.12-1
ii  libapt-pkg5.0             1.8.4
ii  libboost-iostreams1.67.0  1.67.0-13
ii  libc6                     2.29-2
ii  libcwidget4               0.5.18-5
ii  libgcc1                   1:9.2.1-8
ii  libncursesw6              6.1+20190803-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5         2.10.1-2
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.29.0-2
ii  libstdc++6                9.2.1-8
ii  libtinfo6                 6.1+20190803-1
ii  libxapian30               1.4.12-1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-13
ii  sensible-utils                 0.0.12

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  apt-xapian-index                <none>
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.8.12-1
pn  debtags                         <none>
pn  tasksel                         <none>

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