Tags

Add color to your logs

A GNOME text tagger inspired by the TextAnalysisTool.NET tool.

The main goal is to aid log analysis by tagging lines with user defined colors. Tags have a match pattern, description name, visibility toggle, color scheme and hit counter.

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Actions and Shortcuts

General Actions

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl + A	Add a Tag
Ctrl + S	Save tagged lines
Ctrl + C	Copy selected text lines to clipboard
Ctrl + H	Toggle untagged lines visibility
F9	Hide/Show Tag list (sidebar)
Ctrl + L	Hide/Show Line numbers
Ctrl + M	Hide/Show Minimap
Alt + E	Enable all tags
Alt + D	Disable all tags

Tags Toggle

Toggle the first ten tags with keyboard shortcuts:

Shortcut	Action
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

Note: Using Ctrl instead of Alt will enable the respective tag and hide all the others.

Navigation

Requires a tag to be selected on the tag list

Shortcut	Action
F2	Previous tag hit
F3	Next tag hit
Ctrl + M	Toggle minimap visibility

Check the available shortcuts in the application menu with Ctrl + ?.

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Additional Features

• Load tags
• Save tags
• Remove all tags
• Open new window
• User defined color schemes
• Tags based on string comparison
• Support for regular expressions
• Case sensitive support
• Automatic load tags file (same filename + .tags`extension)
• Navigate thru hits with F2 and F3
• Random color scheme on tag creation
• Document minimap with tag colors

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Development

Developed in Vala + Gtk 4

Dependencies

• meson
• ninja
• valac
• Gtk 4
• Libgee
• 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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Additional Notes

Filters have a top down priority. Only works with text files and uses string matching rules or regular expressions.