From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: wbp@nodomain.invalid (Will Parsons) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Looking for Dired mode to comment directory listing Date: 18 Jul 2007 12:00:39 GMT Organization: Westinghouse Electric Company Message-ID: References: <1184648940.399581.10860@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: william.b.parsons@us.westinghouse.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184762442 2333 80.91.229.12 (18 Jul 2007 12:40:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:40:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 18 14:40:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IB8pU-00027C-LF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:40:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IB8pU-0000JO-2n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:40:32 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Trace: individual.net ygpz56i8ABF82CGq/EwN2Q1Edp6rm43/KRniOYJcSKPU3uTtwa Cancel-Lock: sha1:MTCW2csK6v8A5WcqEtJ95E9BGBI= User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.1 (Win32) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:150191 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:45772 Archived-At: Alan wrote: > At one time, 4dos, an alternate M$DOG shell, enabled a file listing > command to include a comment. In the days of 8+3 filenames, this was > simple feature improved my work output considerably. Later on, GNU/ > Linux with extremely long filenames worked ok, and I was able to > forget about 4dos. > > It occurs to me, however, that it might be possible to do a similar > thing with dired, transparently. Is it currently possible? I saw an > ipa.el, In Pace Annotations, on the emacs.sources group/list (http:// > www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/ipa.el), enabling commentary > annotations to be saved in separate files, and viewed transparently. > To use this feature for directory listings, however, it would be > necessary to save the listing to a file. Or would it? I'm not familiar with ipa.el, but 4dos worked (if I remember correctly) by having an invisible file DESCRIPT.ION in each directory containing the mappings of file names to file descriptions. As long as one used the 4dos versions of copy, move, &c. to copy and move the files, the annotations would follow the file names. You could do this in Emacs, but you would have to use the annotation-aware version of dired to maintain the annotations. > I have received comments in the past, that long filenames are enough. > I could still use other kinds of comments, for example, with photos, > and it would seem to be more convenient. > > Thanks for any ideas.