decorate files with tags for easy search

[billiebub]

I've been playing with lots of files lately and thought of an idea where files can be tagged. Let's take for example some websites that offer this capability where you could tag videos to describe their content.

I sometimes work with files where they belong (or should belong) to different directories based on their content. I'm not entirely sure how TC would handle tags but take for example the quick search where you type file names. Wouldn't be cool if you could pass in a param (much like how you can use ? for regular expression) to the quick search and specify the tags then be able to select only files that match the defined tags?

If it could be applied to the file search function that would be also really great.

[MVV]

Maybe you can use file comments as tags? Press Ctrl+Z to edit comment, or add corresponding column to see comments.

[billiebub]

I tried the comments option but the quick search does not seem to search by comments unless I'm missing something here.

MVV, your great VirtualPanel does lots of things already. You think this is something that can be integrated into VP?

[MVV]

VP doesn't provide any additional attributes.

You may try to search via Plugins search tab:

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tc.comment contains bla-bla-bla

Quick search is able to search by name only. You may try this, but I haven't used it so don't sure.

[fenix_productions]

I tried the comments option but the quick search does not seem to search by comments unless I'm missing something here.

You are missing two plugins:
- QuickSearch eXtended
- CommentsWDX

Works for me with tcmatch.ini:

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[general]
wdx_separator_char=/
[wdx]
wdx_text_plugin1=Comment@d:\totalcmd\Plugins\content\comments\CommentsWDX.wdx
wdx_groups=|1
wdx_cache=1000

Now I can type /whatever to get only files with whatever in comments

Disadvantage: comments do not work for files with Unicode file names.
Similar topic: http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=221740

[billiebub]

Now that's something I can say that mimics tags. I knew about the Quick Search extended. In fact I use it all the time especially their support for regular expressions. I did not know of the commentsWDX plugin but it's really cool that I can now use it with Quick Search. Hopefully I don't get to play with too many unicode file names.

Thanks a lot guys.

[sorcar]

Now I can type /whatever to get only files with whatever in comments

fenix_productions: This is brilliant. And I had been searching heaven and earth for a less elegant solution! Thanks, so so much.

[jp_roth]

Do you know if quicksearch extended supports relative or %commander_path% variable when pointing to the wdx plugin? Sorry, not have tc where i am.

Regards.