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[PATCH] Pretiffy package-menu

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Elijah Gabe Pérez <eg642616 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 78794 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, philipk <at> posteo.net
Subject: bug#78794: [PATCH] Pretiffy package-menu
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 07:34:47 +0300

> From: Elijah Gabe Pérez <eg642616 <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 78794 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  philipk <at> posteo.net
> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 14:37:07 -0600
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Elijah Gabe Pérez <eg642616 <at> gmail.com>
> >> Cc: 78794 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  philipk <at> posteo.net
> >> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 13:13:00 -0600
> >> 
> >> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> >> 
> >> > Can you explain what you meant by "New" here?  Then I might be able to
> >> > suggest a more clear terminology.
> >> 
> >> "New" indicates how many packages with the status of "new" are in
> >> package menu, according to manual:
> >> 
> >>   Equivalent to ‘available’, except that the package became newly
> >>   available on the package archive after your last invocation of M-x
> >>   list-packages.
> >
> > Alas, this doesn't explain what is meant by "new".  What are the
> > conditions for a package to have the "new" status in the menu?  The
> > 'available' status is documented as
> >
> >   ‘available’
> >        The package is not installed, but can be downloaded and installed
> >        from the package archive.
> >
> > which I interpret as meaning the package is not installed and can be
> > installed.  I cannot understand what "new" means in that case, since
> > what shows the packages is the list-packages command.  Maybe you could
> > give an example of when a package that will be shown as "new"?
> 
>  when a package is added to a package archive, list-packages will
> fetch how many packages have been added to all the package archives that
> user have and display them first in the package menu.
> 
> e.g. A package is added to GNU ELPA and another to NonGNU, the next day
> I execute "list-packages", it will display first both packages as "new"
> indicating that they were recently added from that package archive, thus
> this improves the discoverablility of new packages to the user.

Thanks.  Then I suggest "New" on the mode line and "Added recently" in
the help-echo.

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