Questions, bugs on taglist and tagging-related commands

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sweet40
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Questions, bugs on taglist and tagging-related commands

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Hi.
I'm getting used to tagging, but have some concerns.

text taglist();
this is not working, right? Initially I thought it could be due to having a single tag and the command wouldn't list a single tag, but no, it doesn't work at all. Also, it should display custom messages, at least a hard-coded one in case of a list being empty instead of nothing. How one knows that the blank means "hey, I'm broken!", or "I have nothing to display."?

Also, when I code something to attribute labels, it often becomes broken if those labels have custom name. As it's limited to 15, either it should allow attributing labels by their numbers or even better, provide a way to retrieve which number is attributed to which label or

"number - label name - rgb for text - rgb for backgorund".

"tag" command can't assign those rgb values when it comes to labels, currently. It should, and it should allow changing it on the fly using the "setting" command. Of course all of this comes specially handy when it comes to portability and working with scripting on different ini settings for different instances of XYplorer.

Freedom, man. :ugeek:

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Re: Questions, bugs on taglist and tagging-related commands

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taglist() just concerns the MRU list of tags (yep, the Help could be clearer on this). Nothing to do with actually tagged items.

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Re: Questions, bugs on taglist and tagging-related commands

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admin wrote:taglist() just concerns the MRU list of tags (yep, the Help could be clearer on this). Nothing to do with actually tagged items.
Well, MRU was not quite right. Quoting the change log:
The "Tag List" is your tag cloud. It is there to let you select tags rather than type them again and again.
In the Edit Tags dialog there is a checkbox "Add new tag(s) to tag list" which auto-maintains your tag cloud. New tags are always added to the top of the list.
You can also manually manage the Tag List in List Management. This way you can easily load a new cloud to have a different set of tags ready for selection.
Note that editing the Tag List does not change or remove any tags from your files or folders! The Tag List is only your interface to selecting/attaching tags.

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