Suggestion: Regular Expressions for Tags

[Sergio Nunes]

Hi,

While navigating through my bookmarks, I found myself thinking that some form of regular
expressions for tag selection would greatly improve my filtering. For example, I use
"qualifiers" in several tags (e.g.: date:2007, date:200701, recipe:fish, ...) It would be great to
be able to use regular expressions with these tags (e.g. date:>2006 or recipe:*).

My 0,2€ to make del.icio.us event better.

Best regards,
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Sérgio Nunes

[Larson, Timothy E.]

Post by Sergio Nunes
While navigating through my bookmarks, I found myself thinking that
some form of regular expressions for tag selection would greatly
improve my filtering. For example, I use "qualifiers" in several tags
(e.g.: date:2007, date:200701, recipe:fish, ...) It would be great to
be able to use regular expressions with these tags (e.g. date:>2006 or recipe:*).

How about just splitting those into multiple tags? Search for
"recipe+fish" for recipes involving fish, and just "recipe" to get all
the recipes.

I once wanted Del to have different "types" or "namespaces" of tags as
well, but the generalized solution often works just as well. It may
leave the exact nature of a tag ambiguous but it's also flexible, which
is a strength.

Tim

[Joshua Schachter]

Post by Larson, Timothy E.
How about just splitting those into multiple tags? Search for
"recipe+fish" for recipes involving fish, and just "recipe" to get all
the recipes.
I once wanted Del to have different "types" or "namespaces" of tags as
well, but the generalized solution often works just as well. It may
leave the exact nature of a tag ambiguous but it's also
flexible, which

I agree on the recipe+fish thing.

I will note that you can find everything with foo:* via system:has:foo;
this is more useful for parameterized spaces (eg the geo:#### junk that
happens when people conflate tags and metadata.)

Joshua