From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com>,
Help Gnu Emacs Mailing List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : file metadata
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 00:58:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DS7PR10MB523229744E69BFEBB3ACB1D0F37A2@DS7PR10MB5232.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bjzqp9dv.fsf@librehacker.com>
> 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?
One approach is to bookmark a file and use a bookmark's annotation to record the metadata.
If you use Bookmark+ then:
You can also use tags, instead of or in addition to an annotation.
You can also use an autofile bookmark, which has the same name as the file. This is just a wrapper around a file or directory: a way to attach meta information (such as tags or an annotation) to it. But you can use an autofile bookmark much as you would use a file or directory.
See:
* Annotations: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BookmarkPlus#BookmarkAnnotations
* Tags:
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BookmarkPlus#BookmarkTags
* Autofiles:
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BookmarkPlus#AutofileBookmarks
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-12 0:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-11 22:22 file metadata Christopher Howard
2024-10-12 0:58 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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
2024-10-15 22:48 ` James Thomas
2024-10-15 23:32 ` James Thomas
2024-10-15 23:36 ` James Thomas
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2024-10-15 19:44 [External] : " Christopher Howard
2024-10-15 21:14 ` Drew Adams
2024-10-16 15:58 Christopher Howard
2024-10-16 20:22 ` Drew Adams
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