[plug] dselect help

[Tim Bowden]

Brad Campbell wrote:
> Tim Bowden wrote:
> 
>> All you dselect users who have just come out of the closet now have a 
>> chance to show your stuff.  Is there any way to 'tab' from one section 
>> header to the next or 'close' a section?  Going through the entire 
>> list is a bit tiresome.
>>
>> Tim Bowden
> 
> 
> Dunno, I just use the "/" and search for all or part of what I'm looking 
> for, just like less and vi.

Just what I needed.  Works a treat.  I just discovered dselect will work 
where apt-get won't.  I think I'm sold.

> 
> I think the difference is I don't browse the list looking for something 
> I'd like to install. I know what I want (or have some idea what to look 
> for) in advance and use debians website to narrow it down if a search 
> with dselect does not help me.
> 
> vi RULES!
> 

No argument there.

> Ahh shit.. I actually *like* dselect and vi, next I'll be programming in 
> binary on toggle switches..
> I'm pretty young, the lowest level I have gone is hand assembled 6502 
> code entered on a hex keypad, I missed all the binary and toggle switches.
>

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