Beginners question / cygwin setup with filter box

[Marcio Galli]

This is very nice. Thanks for the update Dave. I will look into the URL

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Dave Korn
<dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Marcio Galli wrote:
>> Hi all ,
>>
>> This is my first post. I watch this list from some time and long time
>> ago entered in this list with a thinking that the cygwin Setup app
>> could have a sort of filter ( type-ahead ) to facilitate folks to find
>> packages. Have you guys seen something like this? I have installed
>> cygwin for my father this last weekend and realized still misses a
>> filter ( as you type ) function.
>>
>> Wondering if you find this feature interesting, and how one could
>> build and submit a patch - if the idea is worth it.
>
>  This feature is being worked on and will be in the next released version of
> setup.exe, thanks to a patch already submitted by Andrew Punch[*].  (It needs
> me to find a bit of time to write code to fix a minimum window size but apart
> from that is working, so I'll try and get to it during next week.)
>
>    cheers,
>      DaveK
> --
> [*] - http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2009-03/msg00149.html
>