https://github.com/phastmike/tags

A simple text tagger
https://github.com/phastmike/tags

gnome gnome-app tagger text-analysis vala vala-applications

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A simple text tagger

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/phastmike/tags
• Owner: phastmike
• License: other
• Created: 2022-04-07T08:56:55.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-01-24T12:38:54.000Z (12 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-02-14T03:16:03.056Z (11 months ago)
• Topics: gnome, gnome-app, tagger, text-analysis, vala, vala-applications
• Language: Vala
• Homepage:
• Size: 979 KB
• Stars: 14
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 12
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: COPYING

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README

        
# Tags

A GNOME text tagger inspired by the [TextAnalysisTool.NET](https://textanalysistool.github.io/)

tool.

The main goal is to aid log analysis by tagging lines with user defined colors.

Tags have a description name, a visibility toggle, a color scheme and a hit counter.

## Screenshot

![tagger](./data/screenshots/tags.png)

## Download

[![Download on flathub](https://dl.flathub.org/assets/badges/flathub-badge-en.png)](https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.phastmike.tags)

## Actions and Shortchuts

Ctrl + N : Add a Tag

Ctrl + S : Save tagged lines

Ctrl + C : Copy selected text lines to clipboard

Ctrl + H : Toggle untagged lines visibility

Ctrl + F : Hide/Show Tag list (bottom)

### Tags

Toggle the first ten tags with keyboard shortcuts.

Alt + 1 : Toggle enabled status for first tag

Alt + 2 : Toggle enabled status for second tag

...

Alt + 9 : Toggle enabled status for ninth tag

Alt + 0 : Toggle enabled status for tenth tag

### Navigation

-- *requires a tag to be selected on the tag list*

F2 : Previous tag hit

F3 : Next tag hit

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#### Notice

**Using Ctrl instead of Alt will enable the respective tag

and hide all the others**.

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### Additional features:

- Load tags

- Save tags

- Remove all tags

- Open new window

- User defined line numbering color scheme

- Simple tags based on a string containg a pattern

- Support for regular expressions

- Case sensitive support

- Automatic load tags file when opening a file and a similarly named file with

  added `.tags` extension exists

- Navigate thru hits with F2 and F3

- Random color scheme on tag creation

## Development

Developed with Vala + Gtk4.

### Dependencies

It depends on:

- meson

- ninja

- valac

- Gtk 4

- LibAdwaita-1

- json-glib-1.0

### Build

Clone the repository and inside it, compile with:

`$ meson build && cd build && ninja`

Install with:

`$ ninja install`

Then, test it with:

`$ tags`

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Only works with text files and uses string matching rules.