Re: file metadata

[James Thomas]

Christopher Howard wrote:

> Hi, I have a bunch of files in various project that have
> non-descriptive names, but I don't want to change the file names, nor
> the file contents. It would be nice if there was some way I could
> display my own description of the file next to the the file listing,
> say in dired. Do we have any kind of extension, ideally with dired
> integration, that provides some of kind of file metadata system, or
> interacts with a third party metadata system?

I had a system where I used:

(let ((backup-directory-alist '(("." . "~/denote"))))
  (make-backup-file-name-1 (expand-file-name
  (file-name-with-extension filename "org"))))

...to automatically check for a corresponding denote file with metadata.

Regards,
James