microsoft
Make 'upgrade' command work with partial names
Description of the new feature / enhancement
Due to bad vision I have to use large console fonts. Because of that winget table with list of available upgrades don't have packages full names or ids
Name Id Version Available Source
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GPL Ghostscript ArtifexSoftware.Ghos… 9.27 10.00.0 winget
Wireshark 3.6.3 64-b… WiresharkFoundation.… 3.6.3 4.0.0.0 winget
Microsoft Visual C++… Microsoft.VCRedist.2… 14.29.30139.0 14.34.31823.3 winget
Microsoft Visual Stu… Microsoft.VisualStud… 1.70.1 1.72.1 winget
Microsoft Visual C++… Microsoft.VCRedist.2… 14.29.30139.0 14.34.31823.3 winget
eM Client eMClient.eMClient 9.0.1361.0 9.1.2109.0 winget
If I don't want to upgrade everything, it become really difficult to find name, or id, or moniker of packages for upgrade. Running "winget upgrade 'Microsoft Visual C'" or "winget upgrade --name 'Microsoft Visual C'" returned "No installed package found matching input criteria." It took me more than 5 minutes to find what 'Microsoft Visual C++…' is actually Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable (x64) and (x86) and only after that I was able to upgrade this packages.
Proposed technical implementation details
Make winget upgrade command accept part of name or id as input, like list command. Or make it accept wildcards. Or add option for display result not only as table, but as list as well.
You may want to take a look at adding Tab Completion to your profile. It will allow you to enter a partial name / id and then you can use tab to cycle through the available options
Thank you for suggestion. It become much easier to find full package name.
@Nino-kun we have done some work on accessibility and screen readers. I don't know how great the experience is, but that may be another option.
Please feel free to submit any suggestions that would make this product easier for you to use. I care deeply about the product, and I want to make sure everyone has a great experience.
We are also actively working on a native PowerShell implementation that might also offer a better experience since the "output" can be formatted in a better way, and there will be options that do not truncate the text based on the number of characters the terminal or shell is able to output.
Or instead of tables one could display it as a simple compact string. Such as <id>:<version>[<source>] -> <upgrade version> on each line. winget info <id> to get the description and display name.
