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Re: Improved apt/dpkg completion and completion hacking questions

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From: Clint Adams <clint@xxxxxxx>
To: Hannu Koivisto <azure@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Improved apt/dpkg completion and completion hacking questions
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:20:27 -0400
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> without descriptions without awk.  So, let's say we make the old
> code the default behaviour and have the description-generating awk
> version available via customization.  How would you implement such
> customizability?

You could use 'zstyle'.  Another thing you might consider is
filing a wishlist bug on apt to add an option to spew out
the short description after each package name when doing
'apt-cache --generate pkgnames'.

Have you done any speed tests?

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