Options for characters in filename tagging

Feature requests
1

Currently, there’s only one way of adding tags to filenames: in brackets and tags separated by spaces.

Example:
filename_[tag1 tag2 tag3].jpg

I see that in the settings, under “Advanced”, we already have a setting for the tag container prefix (the character that separates the tag brackets with the rest of the filename).

I wish we could also specify the other delimiters. For example, I would be happy to set all delimiters as underscores. So that the newly tagged filename could look like:

filename_tag1_tag2_tag3.jpg

I’m also very open to modifying my own installation of Tagspaces, so if you could point me in the direction of which files I need to modify to make this happen at least, I would endlessly appreciate it.

Thanks for making and maintaining such a cool program!

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Update:
I managed to do this, however with a small flaw, in my own build.

Made the following changes:

  1. In the file, src/renderer/reducers/settings-default.ts

Changed this line:
tagDelimiter: ’ ',

Into this:
tagDelimiter: ’-',

  1. Then, in: src/renderer/AppConfig.ts

Just BEFORE the final line:
export default AppConfig;

I added the following:

AppConfig.beginTagContainer = ‘';
AppConfig.endTagContainer = '’;

So the final few lines of the file looks like this:

AppConfig.showTSVersion =typeof window !== ‘undefined’ && window.ExtShowTSVersion !== undefined? window.ExtShowTSVersion: true;

AppConfig.beginTagContainer = ‘';
AppConfig.endTagContainer = '’;

export default AppConfig;

And then compiled.

The result?

  • The brackets have been replaced by underscores, check.

  • Tags are NOT separated by dashes, but by underscores yet again. Not sure why yet.

  • And there are repeating underscores. So for example, when you add two tags, in between them they have two underscores

- Finally, after the last tag there’s no check to remove the final underscore. So filenames can end with underscores, which is a bit unsightly.

Example filename after renaming:

testfile_tag1__tag2__tag3_.jpg

Will work on it some more later. If anyone’s got ideas, happy to hear them!