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What's comment about?
  • Comment stores comments on a per directory basis. Your comments are relevant to your location
    Leave reminders for...
    • how to compile a source file
    • what state a particular document was in before you had to leave
    • which parameters to use in order to invoke a program to do what you want
    • collaborative working notes
    • ...the possibilities go on
  • Comment also keeps a central store of all your own personal comments in your home directory, available at any time for you to search.
  • Comment stores data in a plain text format, allowing you to use existing text tools to search and manipulate as you need
  • Comment uses UNIX file access rights for easy control of permissions
Technical information
  • Comment is written entirely in C
  • Comment currently requires no external libraries ( other than the defacto libc )
  • Comment stores comments in a decending time format ( newest comments at the start of the file, this is to allow useful viewing with editors and pagenator programs such as 'more' and 'less' )
  • Comment released under the BSD licence
Downloads
Installing
tar zxvf comment-0.1-dev.tar.gz
cd comment-0.1-dev
make
make install
Using Comment
  • Adding a comment
    comment add 'This is my first comment'

  • Finding a comment in the current directory
    comment findhere 'first'
            4:1:Wed Feb 26 12:10:07 2003 - worker - /home/worker
    This is my first comment
    
  • Finding a comment from your central comment collection
    comment findhome 'first'
            4:1:Wed Feb 26 12:10:07 2003 - worker - /home/worker
    This is my first comment
    
  • Finding a comment from either current directory or central
    comment findall 'first'
            4:1:Wed Feb 26 12:10:07 2003 - worker - /home/worker
    This is my first comment
    
            4:1:Wed Feb 26 12:10:07 2003 - worker - /home/worker
    This is my first comment
    
Contact
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
  • Is there a mailing list?
    No, not yet, when I get a few more users of comment one will be started up.

  • Can I email you with suggestions/patches?
    Sure, feel free to adjust the program and submit your patches to comment200406@pldaniels.com

  • What's with the numerical extention on your email address?
    It's a short-term usage email address in order to combat spam-spider/robots which scour WWW sites

  • Will anything get affected if I edit the .comment files by hand using 'vi' or some other tool?
    Basically, no. The only thing which Comment looks out for is if the first character of a line is '#', in which case Comment treats the line as the start of a new comment.


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