tagcolledit(1)

NAME

tagcolledit - GUI editor for tagged collections

SYNOPSIS

tagcolledit [options] [file]

DESCRIPTION

tagcolledit is GUI editor for tagged collections. It can

be used for heavy-duty editing tagged collections, and as a

tagged collection viewer.

If called without a name for the file to read, tagcolledit

tries to load the debian package tags database found in the sys

tem. Please see http://deb-usability.alioth.debian.org/debtags

for more informations about the Debian Package Tags system.

Please see tagcoll(1) for a description of a tagged col

lection and of the format of the tagged collection input file.

OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax,

with long options starting with two dashes (`-').

--help Print an help message and exit.

--version

Print the program version and exit.

--verbose

Print informational messages about the program op

erations to standard error.

--debug

Print debug messages to standard error.

INTERFACE

The interface of tagcolledit, modeled after a style of in

teraction similar to Midnight Commander, is composed of two pan

els which give two views of the same tagged collection.

Every panel is then divided in two parts: the Tag Selector

and the Item List.

The Item List shows all the items that have all the tags

currently selected in the Tag Selector attached to them.

The The Tag Selector manage the selection if "current"

tags. It is a list of all the available tags divided in three

groups: Selected, Available and Unavailable. A tag can be moved

back and forth from the Selected and the Available group by dou

ble-clicking on it.

The Selected group shows a list of tags that have been se

lected.

The Available group shows a list of tags that can be se

lected.

The Unavailable group shows a list of tags that cannot be

selected, because adding one of them to the Selected group would

make a set of tags that cannot be found attached to any item in

the collection.

To add a tag to a set of items, select them in the Item

List and drop on them a tag dragged from a Tag Selector.

You can merge or intersect the set of tags of a group of

items by selecting the items and then use the Merge and Intersect

options of the Edit menu.

You can "copy" and "move" items from a panel to the other

via the Edit menu. "copy" and "move" are written in quotes be

cause they only appear as copy and move operations, but instead

they work as follows:

"copy" adds to the items all the tags currently selected

in the other panel (this causing the items to also appear in the

other panel).

"move" replaces the tag sets of the items with the tags

currently selected in the other panel (this causing them to dis

appear in the active panel and to appear in the other panel).

SEE ALSO

tagcoll(1), debtags(1)

AUTHOR

tagcolledit has been written by Enrico Zini <enrico@de

bian.org> for the purpose of experimenting with tagged collec

tions and related algorithms: all possible feedback and ideas are

thus more than welcome.

0.2 May 23, 2003

TAGCOLLEDIT(1)