Package: emacs;
Reported by: Samuel Bronson <naesten <at> gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 21:00:03 UTC
Severity: minor
Tags: fixed
Found in version 24.3
Fixed in version 27.1
Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
From: Samuel Bronson <naesten <at> gmail.com> To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org Subject: 24.3; package.el: searches don't see elided chars of package name Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 16:58:46 -0400
When I search within the *Packages* buffer, my searches can't match on parts of the package name that got elided to fit into the column width. Couldn't this be remedied by displaying the ellipsis using an overlay, rather than actually including it in the buffer text? It would also be nice if there was some way to customize the column widths. (Also, when the user hovers the mouse over a truncated field in a columnview, it's traditional to display the un-truncated text in a "tooltip" that appears exactly on top of the truncated text, at least when that's possible without the tooltip going past the edge of the screen. I'm not sure if an actual Emacs tooltip would be the best way to do it though. May not be worth bothering with, though, since it sounds like an awful lot of work to do properly ...) (One other thing that tends to bug me: when isearch scrolls my window to the right because it matched something in a long summary, the next match doesn't reverse this, and I *CANNOT SEE THE PACKAGE NAMES*.) 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