diff --git a/share/functions/__fish_print_apt_packages.fish b/share/functions/__fish_print_apt_packages.fish
index 5158bcc7e..c8d578c9e 100644
--- a/share/functions/__fish_print_apt_packages.fish
+++ b/share/functions/__fish_print_apt_packages.fish
@@ -18,20 +18,21 @@ function __fish_print_apt_packages
         # Note: This can include "Description:" fields which we need to include,
         # "Description-en_GB" (or another locale code) fields which we need to include
         # as well as "Description-md5" fields which we absolutely do *not* want to include
-        # The regex doesn't allow numbers, so unless someone makes a hash algorithm without a number in the name,
-        # we're safe. (yes, this should absolutely have a better format).
+        # The regex doesn't allow numbers, so unless someone makes a hash algorithm without a number
+        # in the name, we're safe. (yes, this should absolutely have a better format).
         #
         # aptitude has options that control the output formatting, but is orders of magnitude slower
         #
         # sed could probably do all of the heavy lifting here, but would be even less readable
         #
-        # The `head -n2500` causes us to stop once we have 2500 lines. We do it after the `sed` because
-        # Debian package descriptions can be extremely long - texlive-latex-extra has about 2700 lines in Debian 11.
-        apt-cache --no-generate show '.*'(commandline -ct)'.*' 2>/dev/null | sed -r '/^(Package|Description-?[a-zA-Z_]*):/!d;s/Package: (.*)/\1\t/g;s/Description-?[^:]*: (.*)/\1\x1a\n/g' | head -n 2500 | string join "" | string replace --all --regex \x1a+ \n | uniq
+        # The `head -n 500` causes us to stop once we have 500 lines. We do it after the `sed` because
+        # Debian package descriptions can be extremely long and are hard-wrapped: texlive-latex-extra
+        # has about 2700 lines on Debian 11.
+        apt-cache --no-generate show '.*'(commandline -ct)'.*' 2>/dev/null | sed -r '/^(Package|Description-?[a-zA-Z_]*):/!d;s/Package: (.*)/\1\t/g;s/Description-?[^:]*: (.*)/\1\x1a\n/g' | head -n 500 | string join "" | string replace --all --regex \x1a+ \n | uniq
         return 0
     else
         set -l packages (dpkg --get-selections | string replace -fr '(\S+)\s+install' "\$1" | string match -e (commandline -ct))
-        apt-cache --no-generate show $packages 2>/dev/null | sed -r '/^(Package|Description-?[a-zA-Z_]*):/!d;s/Package: (.*)/\1\t/g;s/Description-?[^:]*: (.*)/\1\x1a\n/g' | head -n 2500 | string join "" | string replace --all --regex \x1a+ \n | uniq
+        apt-cache --no-generate show $packages 2>/dev/null | sed -r '/^(Package|Description-?[a-zA-Z_]*):/!d;s/Package: (.*)/\1\t/g;s/Description-?[^:]*: (.*)/\1\x1a\n/g' | head -n 500 | string join "" | string replace --all --regex \x1a+ \n | uniq
         return 0
     end
 end