Bug#807665: apt-listbugs: please allow q as alias for n
On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 00:00:30 +0100 Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:57:58PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > > Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [N/?/...] > > > > What's unclear in this question? [...] > > It's not that the question is unclear. It's just that my > muscle memory tells me to enter q to exit a program after > having interacted with it. Well, but the fact is: you haven't yet finished interacting with apt-listbugs! you still have to answer the above-quoted question (in order to decide what to do with the packages under consideration)! Depending on your answer, the outcome may be that you exit from apt-listbugs or that you pin other packages, or what not. > > That's a reflex, I cannot control it. This sounds really strange to me. After all, hitting [q] to quit a program is not so general a rule as you seem to imply. I've seen many cases where [Ctrl+q] has to be used. And a good number of more unusual keys in other cases... -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! . Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE pgp4p8wVJvpE7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#807665: apt-listbugs: please allow q as alias for n
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:57:58PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 13:58:13 +0100 Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > [...] > > What happens after pinning is that I try q a few > > times and then press Ctrl+D because q does not do > > anything. It somehow does not occur to me that I > > would need to press n. > [...] > > > > So, it would be nice if you could allow q as an > > alias for n. > > Hello Julian, > thanks for your interest in improving apt-listbugs. > > However, I do not agree with the rationale of your feature request. > > If I understand correctly, you are referring to the question you get > after pinning some packages, that is: > > Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [N/?/...] > > What's unclear in this question? > The main options are shown in squared brackets, where it can be seen > that the default answer is "n" (that means "no, I don't want to > install/upgrade the packages"). You get the same result by simply > hitting [Enter], since, as I said, "n" is the *default* answer in this > case. > I cannot understand why you think that answering "q" would have any > effect. It's not one of the possible answers: please answer "?" and > take a look at the complete list possible answers. > > To conclude, I am sorry, but I am *not* going to add aliases just > because one user issues the wrong command and expects it to be > equivalent to the right command... > > I am closing this bug report now. > Bye. It's not that the question is unclear. It's just that my muscle memory tells me to enter q to exit a program after having interacted with it. That's a reflex, I cannot control it. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. When replying, only quote what is necessary, and write each reply directly below the part(s) it pertains to (`inline'). Thank you.
Bug#807665: apt-listbugs: please allow q as alias for n
Package: apt-listbugs Version: 0.1.17 Severity: wishlist What happens after pinning is that I try q a few times and then press Ctrl+D because q does not do anything. It somehow does not occur to me that I would need to press n. Probably used vi too often in the past months. So, it would be nice if you could allow q as an alias for n. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages apt-listbugs depends on: ii apt 1.1.4 ii ruby1:2.2.3 ii ruby-debian 0.3.9+b4 ii ruby-gettext3.1.7-1 ii ruby-soap4r 2.0.5-3 ii ruby-unicode0.4.4-2+b5 ii ruby-xmlparser 0.7.3-1+b2 ii ruby2.1 [ruby-interpreter] 2.1.5-4 ii ruby2.2 [ruby-interpreter] 2.2.3-2 Versions of packages apt-listbugs recommends: ii ruby-httpclient 2.3.3-3.1 Versions of packages apt-listbugs suggests: ii debianutils 4.5.1 ii epiphany-browser [www-browser] 3.18.1-1 ii google-chrome-stable [www-browser] 47.0.2526.80-1 ii links2 [www-browser]2.12-1+b1 ii lynx-cur [www-browser] 2.8.9dev6-5 ii netsurf [www-browser] 3.2+dfsg-2.2 ii netsurf-gtk [www-browser] 3.2+dfsg-2.2+b1 ii reportbug 6.6.5 ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-26 -- no debconf information -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. When replying, only quote what is necessary, and write each reply directly below the part(s) it pertains to (`inline'). Thank you.
