---
name: "tagcolledit"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "tagcolledit"
version: "1.3-1"
release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/tagcolledit"
---

# tagcolledit(1)

GUI editor for tagged collections

## NAME

tagcolledit - GUI editor for tagged collections

## SYNOPSIS

**tagcolledit** \[*options*\] \[*file*\]\

## DESCRIPTION

**tagcolledit** is GUI editor for tagged collections.  It can be used for heavy-duty editing tagged collections, and as a tagged collection viewer.

If called without a name for the file to read, **tagcolledit** tries to load the debian package tags database found in the system.  Please see http://deb-usability.alioth.debian.org/debtags for more informations about the Debian Package Tags system.

Please see [tagcoll(1)](/tagcoll/1.md) for a description of a tagged collection and of the format of the tagged collection input file.

## OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (\`-').

- **--help**

  Print an help message and exit.

- **--version**

  Print the program version and exit.

- **--verbose**

  Print informational messages about the program operations to standard error.

- **--debug**

  Print debug messages to standard error.

## INTERFACE

The interface of **tagcolledit**, modeled after a style of interaction similar to Midnight Commander, is composed of two panels which give two views of the same tagged collection.

Every panel is then divided in two parts: the *Tag Selector* and the *Item List*.

The *Item List* shows all the items that have all the tags currently selected in the *Tag Selector* attached to them.

The *The Tag Selector* manage the selection if "current" tags.  It is a list of all the available tags divided in three groups: *Selected*, *Available* and *Unavailable*.  A tag can be moved back and forth from the Selected and the Available group by double-clicking on it.

The *Selected* group shows a list of tags that have been selected.

The *Available* group shows a list of tags that can be selected.

The *Unavailable* group shows a list of tags that cannot be selected, because adding one of them to the *Selected* group would make a set of tags that cannot be found attached to any item in the collection.

To add a tag to a set of items, select them in the *Item List* and drop on them a tag dragged from a *Tag Selector*.

You can merge or intersect the set of tags of a group of items by selecting the items and then use the *Merge* and *Intersect* options of the *Edit* menu.

You can "copy" and "move" items from a panel to the other via the *Edit* menu.  "copy" and "move" are written in quotes because they only appear as copy and move operations, but instead they work as follows:

"copy" adds to the items all the tags currently selected in the other panel (this causing the items to also appear in the other panel).

"move" replaces the tag sets of the items with the tags currently selected in the other panel (this causing them to disappear in the active panel and to appear in the other panel).

## SEE ALSO

[**tagcoll**(1)](/tagcoll/1.md), [**debtags**(1)](/debtags/1.md)

## AUTHOR

**tagcolledit** has been written by Enrico Zini \<enrico@debian.org\> for the purpose of experimenting with tagged collections and related algorithms: all possible feedback and ideas are thus more than welcome.