Uwe Brauer writes: > Hm I played around with filetags and it is quite nice, I think, thanks > for pointing it out to me. > > I would be extremely interested how you use helm-locate in that context, > and you give me an example, please? > > For example I have the following tags added to a specific directory > bio-hoja4 -- EDO Uwe.tex > and > h1A_ECM_n -- analysis1.tex > > How would I use helm-locate to search those tags?
At first I used a controlled vocabulary for the tags, setting the variables filetags-enforce-controlled-vocabulary and filetags-controlled-vocabulary. But I was getting some false positives. So it occurred to me to configure this other variable like this: (setq filetags-delimiter-between-filename-and-tags "%ftag_") This way, if I start typing in helm-locate %ftag_ I already start getting more accurate results. Like I said, it's not a panacea, but it more or less does the trick :-) BTW, i don't use helm-locate directly but helm-mini with a number of sources related to buffers, markers, and files: (setq helm-mini-default-sources '(helm-source-buffers-list helm-source-recentf helm-source-buffer-not-found helm-source-bookmarks helm-source-bookmark-set helm-source-locate)) So with a single call to helm-mini I can get information about open buffers, recent files, bookmarks, and locate. Best regards, Juan Manuel