'files' subcommand should allow wildcards about tmsu

[student-sx]

I think this would be a nice feature if you want to use tmsu within emacs helm: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/34836/2323

If I call such a helm source it should first display all files typing substrings of tags should narrow the list of candiates down dynamically. For example

pattern: foo bar

Should display all results including foo and bar, i.e. files tagged like Afoo and Xbar or fooX and barB.

If I then refine it to

pattern: fooX bar

It just matches files with tags (fooX and barB) or (fooX and Xbar) if you take the example from above.

I think a helm source working like this would be possible if tmsu would provide wildcards.

[glindsey]

Sorry to necro a five-year-old (!) issue, but there's another place wildcards would be extremely useful: searching for titles.

Example: Say you have a video file containing "The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". So you tag it title="The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". Much later, you want to find it; you don't remember the full name, though, so you want to search for title="*spotless*". Now, you could say that you should just rename the file to contain the title, and in this case that might be a viable solution, but it would still be helpful for other string metadata tags.

Anyways, just a thought. I absolutely adore this project, and am really grateful for the work you've put into it!

[oniony]

Agree, this would be useful. I guess it would make sense to have a separate operator for this. I've seen tilde (~) used in other systems to do fuzzy 'contains' matches, such as Jira, so I think this would work:

tmsu files title ~ spotless
tmsu files title ~ "spotless mind"

Or perhaps ~= would be more readable:

tmsu files title ~= spotless
tmsu files title ~= "spotless mind"