> I also think that automatic tagging is quite insufficent and do not fit that
> well with the tag idea - it tends to turns tags into mere views instead
> role-grouping of the programs, and in many case applications have more than
> one kind of usage (for example web browsers can be used as documentation
> readers, to search the web or to monitor changes to a web page project. I
> don't want to do all these things in a browser tagged "www".)
I agree with what you're saying here, but it is actually possible to fit
automatic tagging with having a browser (say) automatically open for the
task at hand rather than always on a tag such as 'web'. If you search
the archives, you'll notice that I mentioned one way to achieve this a
while ago (I called it the namespace approach). The idea is to modify
/def/rules on the fly, depending on the current tag. In my
implementation:
* Each tag has the form namespace:task
* 'namespace' is meant to be a high-level description of what you're doing,
while 'task' may be something like web for a browser.
* Whenever wmiirc changes to a new view, it inspects the new tag
namespace, and modifies /def/rules accordingly.
>From my wmiirc; the namespace initially starts as '' (which I use as a
kind of scratch-space for random tasks):
--------------------------------------------------
wmiir write /def/rules <<EOF
/MPlayer.*:.*/ -> ~
/Gimp.*/ -> ~
/Gimp.*/ -> :float
/Gecko.*/ -> :web
/.*/ -> !
/.*/ -> :
EOF
--------------------------------------------------
On changing the view, wmiirc calls the following:
--------------------------------------------------
changeView()
{
if [[ -n "$1" ]] ; then
xwrite /ctl view "$1";
namespace=$(wmiir read /view/name | sed -e 's/[^:]*$//')
wmiir read /def/rules | sed -e
's/\([[:alnum:]]*:\)\?\(float\|web\)$/'"$namespace"'\2/' | wmiir write
/def/rules
fi
}
--------------------------------------------------
I also have keybindings for moving left and right between tags *in the
current namespace*. Here's my kludgy implementation from the wmiirc
event loop (I'm sure there must be a better way to do this...)
--------------------------------------------------
$MODKEY-period|$MODKEY-comma)
currView=$(wmiir read /view/name)
newView=''
reverseFlag=''
if echo $1 | grep -q comma ; then
reverseFlag=-r
fi
namespace=$(wmiir read /view/name | sed -e 's/[^:]*$//')
for i in $(wmiir read /tags | grep "^$namespace" | sort $reverseFlag)
do
if [[ -n $newView ]] ; then
newView=$i
break
elif [[ $i == $currView ]] ; then
newView=$currView
fi
done
changeView $newView;;
--------------------------------------------------
I create new namespaces manually via $MODKEY-t :
--------------------------------------------------
$MODKEY-t)
changeView "`wmiir read /tags | wmiimenu`" &;;
--------------------------------------------------
which is somewhat slow, but I haven't been bothered to define special
keybindings for it.
I kind of plan to translate this to python eventually, but I'm a little
tired of tweaking my wm. I admit that I start to want it to "just work"
so I can get on with other stuff.
~Chris.
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