Re: note metadata for files

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>]

On 2 July 2014 19:59, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe not a zsh specific question, but...
>
> Does anyone have a system for attaching notes to a file?
>
> The issue is I track down why a change was made to a file
> (annotate/blame/whatever) and then I remember that I've tracked down
> that change before. It would be useful if I could attach a note to
> files outside of any repo (or the repo they belong to anyway) that
> pops something up (maybe desktop-notify) when I look at the file (not
> stat, but manually grep/cat/less/diff/whatever from a cli).
>
> This could almost be a shell script, but I'm not sure how to make an
> event that would trigger the script with a filename parameter - is
> there a way to do this?

Closest I have is
http://mika.l3ib.org/code/zsh-functions/note
http://cgit.mika.l3ib.org/cgit/zsh-cvs/commit/?h=mika&id=45550f3971d50f8aa0ba63b1a55ce6dd28662200
http://cgit.mika.l3ib.org/cgit/zsh-cvs/commit/?h=mika&id=2d0d2e6750383151551b62980f322ac90de07ec4

zstyle ':completion:dirprop:*' file-list dirprop=user.notes
zstyle ':completion:dirprop:*' dirinfo-format '%f '${(%):-%F{11}}%i${(%):-%f}
zle -C dirprop complete-word _generic
bindkey "^_^V"    dirprop

(or just set the style for your default context to always disable the
notes on tab completion, but it overrides filetype coloring which is
why i don't).

Also note that most programs will silently delete all xattrs when you
edit/copy/etc a file.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson