How do I search inside long descriptions

Malcolm Fitzgerald mfitzgerald at pacific.net.au
Tue Jun 19 00:18:22 PDT 2007


On 19/06/2007, at 4:35 PM, paul beard wrote:

>
> On Jun 18, 2007, at 11:30 PM, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
>
>> The words "known-good port" represent the blank that I'm trying to 
>> fill. I want to be able to search for text inside the port's 
>> long-description. I'd like to discover the "known-good" spreadsheets, 
>> etc that are in MacPorts. At present I have to go to the the freebsd 
>> ports web site, search there, then see if any of the ports that I've 
>> found are available in MacPorts.
>
> Yeah, I missed that in your question somehow. 
>
> Might be worth just dumping a list and seeing if you recognize any, 
> assuming you're familiar with some of the names.

Well, that's half the problem. I'd like to be able to explore and 
discover new things.

malcolm




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