From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mathias Dahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Tag based dired? Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:58:44 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87sllwvhft.fsf@photon.homelinux.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151315068 8296 80.91.229.2 (26 Jun 2006 09:44:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:44:28 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 26 11:44:26 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FundC-0006oA-VQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:43:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FundC-0003DG-Fk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 05:43:46 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Trace: individual.net Jx9wNnjoFypZUlSirS0hvAHmIbMskx2EHOq5cR3Gdr2yn4Nui5 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:esSKG9G7T2qZ+624n185VSOii2M= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140038 comp.emacs:92471 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:35662 Archived-At: Xiao-Yong Jin writes: > Hi all, I'm wondering if there is some kind of tag or label support in > dired. > > Nowadays tagging or labeling is used widely on the Internet. Blogs > and wikis has various tag support. And gmail has its flexible > labeling support. So does the f-spot. I did some search on the web > and there is no file manager that really supports tags well. It certainly is possible. Tumme, which is part of CVS Emacs (Emacs 22) has tagging capabilities. Tumme is used for browing image collections and supports commenting and tagging images. Actually, you should be able to use Tumme's tagging functionality to tag other types of files, as long as you do not try to use it to display these files. :) Tumme stores the comments and tags in a central "database" file. You can use the tags to find files and have them marked in dired. If you don't use CVS Emacs, download tumme.el from here: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Tumme Install it and put this in your .emacs: (require 'tumme) In dired, do M-x tumme-tag-files. You will be prompted for a list of tags to add to the marked files. The tags will then be saved to the tumme database file. After having added files, tell Emacs to mark them using M-x tumme-mark-tagged-files. Again, Tumme is for image browsing, but you could always try and experiment with this to see how it works with other types of files. Tagging files in this way is a generic thing. Happy experimenting!