From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: James Thomas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: file metadata Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 05:06:41 +0530 Message-ID: <86v7xt546u.fsf@gmx.net> References: <87bjzqp9dv.fsf@librehacker.com> <86a5f6babl.fsf@gmx.net> <864j5d6l00.fsf@gmx.net> <86zfn554eg.fsf@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1879"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cc: Help Gnu Emacs Mailing List To: Christopher Howard Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 16 01:37:24 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1t0r6R-0000NB-TF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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envelope-from=jimjoe@gmx.net; helo=mout.gmx.net X-Spam_score_int: -27 X-Spam_score: -2.8 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_CERTIFIED_BLOCKED=0.001, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:148166 Archived-At: James Thomas wrote: > James Thomas wrote: > >> James Thomas wrote: >> >>> 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. >> >> Wth, I decided to write it again. Sharing if useful for Denote users: > > Updated version that accounts for 'keywords' (_after_ the original file > extension): Never mind that: breaks the first function. (I'll see myself out now) --