Search that spans both repos and AUR

[fosskers]

A new long suboption? aura -As --wide?

[Bubu]

Just as a random thought, what about aura -ASs <name>? That's what I actually tried if it already worked. But I don't know if this makes actually any sense. The --wide option would fine work of course.

[fosskers]

I actually thought of that too, but for technically reasons it would be a terrible mess to implement it that way.

[Bubu]

Alright, I'll just make an alias then I guess :-).

[fosskers]

--wide is kind of ambiguous though. Any better names?
Or perhaps just aura -Ass? Double-up the s? But then it spells a naughty word... Not that letter order matters. You could do it -ssA or -sAs and it would work the same way. Note that this would be pretty easy to do.

[rmarquis]

--all?

aura -Ass isn't a good idea, really :P

[Bubu]

What about -Asr with -r for repositories?
(That would hog another letter of course...)

Otherwise, if you'd rather want to implement a long option I'd say --search-all or --search-repos should work? with command line completion the length doesn't matter and it's more descriptive that way.

[Jiehong]

What about -Fs? (for full search (AUR & repos))

[fosskers]

Capital letters usually represent a whole family of operations, and I'm not about to fuse the AUR and the Repos on any other fronts.

[dkasak]

Any choice is necessarily going to be a bit silly since it's asymmetric (why is -A, an AUR flag, searching the repos?). It would be really nice if we could get -SAs to work, but I know it'd be a mess. :\

[fosskers]

Once again the power of taking a shower has bestowed the solution upon me: I won't implement this after all. The desired output can easily be obtained with a simple shell function (here's a fish example):

function search
  aura -Ss $argv; aura -As $argv
end

[Bubu]

That was too easy, and works exactly as it should :-).
I'd add the bash version of that to the wiki page if you don't mind?

[fosskers]

Sure, please.

[dkasak]

@fosskers, excellent choice, I was hoping you'd say that!

[fosskers]

I swear man, taking a shower works every time.

[flamusdiu]

Nice @fosskers ; as a side note, might want to integrate this more easily with the the install of aura ... maybe adding another binary such as "aura_search" or something. May make it easier for new people to Aura to know this exists and make it more friendly without having to create a separate shell function.

[fosskers]

I'll add it to the man page. We're Arch users, remember.

[flamusdiu]

True. =)

Adding to the man page would be great as well.