From: James Thomas <jimjoe@gmx.net>
To: Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs Mailing List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: file metadata
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 03:45:26 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86a5f6babl.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bjzqp9dv.fsf@librehacker.com> (Christopher Howard's message of "Fri, 11 Oct 2024 14:22:52 -0800")
Christopher Howard wrote:
> Hi, I have a bunch of files in various project that have
> non-descriptive names, but I don't want to change the file names, nor
> the file contents. It would be nice if there was some way I could
> display my own description of the file next to the the file listing,
> say in dired. Do we have any kind of extension, ideally with dired
> integration, that provides some of kind of file metadata system, or
> interacts with a third party metadata system?
I had a system where I used:
(let ((backup-directory-alist '(("." . "~/denote"))))
(make-backup-file-name-1 (expand-file-name
(file-name-with-extension filename "org"))))
...to automatically check for a corresponding denote file with metadata.
Regards,
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-14 22:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-11 22:22 file metadata Christopher Howard
2024-10-12 0:58 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-10-12 7:16 ` Dan Hitt
2024-10-14 14:47 ` Christopher Howard
2024-10-13 22:54 ` Jean Louis
2024-10-14 22:15 ` James Thomas [this message]
2024-10-15 22:48 ` James Thomas
2024-10-15 23:32 ` James Thomas
2024-10-15 23:36 ` James Thomas
[not found] <mailman.80.1728955562.19238.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2024-10-15 11:16 ` gfp
2024-10-15 20:20 ` Jean Louis
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