bug#57186: Using xr results in void-function

[uzibalqa]

------- Original Message -------
On Sunday, August 14th, 2022 at 4:21 PM, uzibalqa via "Bug reports for GNU 
Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:


> ------- Original Message -------
> On Sunday, August 14th, 2022 at 6:47 AM, Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org wrote:
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> > > Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 20:35:33 +0000
> > > From: uzibalqa via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> > > the Swiss army knife of text editors" bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > >
> > > I am using `rx' as an alternative to the string-based regexp syntax.` xr' 
> > > in a very useful package to convert
> > > string regexp to `rx' notation. But when I do` M-x 
> > > package-list-packages', I do not see `xr' getting listed.
> >
> > I cannot reproduce this: I clearly do see 'xr' in the list of
> > packages.
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> Was not sorting by Packages, and failed to see it listed. `xr' looks as a 
> quite useful function that works well in conjunction with` rx'. Please 
> consider having `xr' as a built-in, as rx is.

Have seen that package-list-packages lists packages according to "Status".  
Most often, the way to search for packages is by name.  Because of this, a 
sorted listing by "Package" rather than "Status" would be desirable.