On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sb, 18 feb 12, 19:54:50, Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Andrei POPESCU >> > >> > aptitude purge ~c >> >> Thanks. I didn't know that we could use search terms without >> specifying a search (pretty unusual! > > Maybe, although you have to admit it's very useful ;) > > This is not unusual for mutt users, where you also use patterns > everywhere, and aptitude's interface was inspired by mutt as far as I > recall.
It's definitely useful (thanks again), although I generally prefer long-form commands; "~c" is pretty straightforward but others, in aptitude and elsewhere aren't so the long-form easier to remember after a few weeks/moths of not having used it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=SzoZkbiHsLSCjrJ6ekNP=0qmf9enmoy24qnwnb9fd5...@mail.gmail.com