[Bug 1639815] Re: apt list output format

[Donjan Rodic]

Reinforcing point 2: on my system (fairly default 16.10 install),
running 'apt list firefox*' to see the available locales fails due to
bash interference when there is e.g. a file called firefox.txt in this
directory.

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Title:
  apt list output format

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I'm trying to get used to the new 'apt' utility and have three
  wishlist items (don't want to clutter the tracker with multiple
  feature requests) in descending priority:

  1. apt list firefox
  In the output, can we please have a space after the package name, before the slash?
  A very convenient feature of apt-cache/aptitude is to search for a package, then double click + middle click the name of a result to speedily select it and paste it into the current prompt (which is prepared with e.g. an install, show or depends command).
  'apt list' appends '/repo,XXX' (where XXX is most often garbage... ehm, I mean strings like 'now' or again 'other_repo,now') right after the package name, which makes the double click select more than just a package name.
  E.g. 'apt policy firefox/yakkety-updates' fails.
  This would also be more convenient for awk scripts (despite the stable interface warning).

  2. apt list fox
  Can we please have substring matching by default (or a storable user pref) for 'apt list'? 
  'apt search' is _way_ too noisy (the three line output per package instead of one line is just clutter).
  But 'apt list' doesn't match like 'apt-cache search' (or aptitude). The alternative is defaulting to 'apt l<tab> **' and then filling in between the asterisks, or resorting to 'apt l<tab>|grep' as standard 'apt-cache search' replacement.
  I don't see the justification for the current exact searching in only the package names. And there's still 'apt search' for searching the description.

  3. apt sh<tab>
  A minor complaint: all current apt commands complete once they are tabbed when their string becomes unique, and append a space. Only 'apt show' in 16.10 (as opposed to 16.04) does not due to the undocumented showsrc command. This often leads to 'apt showfirefox' after writing 'apt sh<tab>firefox', because it's inconsistent with the other commands.
  So, find another name for showsrc?

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