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A UI Opinion:
If your app has a tag-centric capability, the default token, i.e. w/o marker characters, should be the tag, not the string literal. The string literal should require quotation marks.
To search for tagged [GeePaw] books that are not tagged [read], I should be able to type:
geepaw and not read
In Calibre, I am required to type:
tags:"=GeePaw" not tags:"=read"
To quote my late father, "That really gripes my ass."
@GeePawHill This makes no sense to me. I don't understand the difference in meaning between :"=word" and :="word" and it hurt my head trying to figure it out.
@gdinwiddie Apparently, tags:"=X" is the official syntax. There are, I think, tags that can be numeric, and other comparison operators.
@GeePawHill @gdinwiddie Tags without quotes mean tags can not contain whitespace.
But these two comparison operators with one of them looking like the Pascal assignment operator … that's terrible.
@sashag @gdinwiddie That was a typo. The = sign goes inside the quotes.
@GeePawHill Why does one = sign go inside the " marks and the other outside?
@gdinwiddie Ooooooo! That's a typo. Will fix. Of course, the fact that I made a typo while typing it *is* an illustration of how awkward it is. :)
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@GeePawHill Can the equals symbol be replaced with other symbols for more complex comparisons? That’s the only reason I can think of to force inclusion of it.
That said, while far from perfect, I’ve thrown money at that lone developer who maintains Calibre, since it’s the best open source option we have.