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From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Tags for files
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:17:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a041013101718cf43a1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4509dae4277f82f265b0784354e1a0fb@plan9.escet.urjc.es>

> There's a new tag utility at /n/sources/nemo/sys/src/cmd/tag
> (see its man page) to attach arbitrary tags to files and search
> for files using their tags (a la gmail).

I'm trying to understand this.  It looks to me like in addition to
what you've said above, you can write filters that get run every
time a file is noticed to have been created or changed, so
that tags can be automatically attached. 

Can you give examples of what kind of searches you do?

Russ


  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-13 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-13 16:24 Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-10-13 17:17 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2004-10-13 17:17   ` boyd, rounin
2004-10-13 17:25   ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-10-13 17:28     ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-10-14  0:56 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-10-14  6:47   ` Fco. J. Ballesteros

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