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# Introducing N-Angulator
Kevin Haddock

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<https://github.com/vigilancetech-com/N-Angulator>

The Unix file system is essentially an N-dimentional sparse array that
currently lacks a decent editor and browser which
can effectively leverage the logical tri-angulation (or, more properly
"n-angulation") of atoms/blobs within it.

N-Angulator is the genesis, to wit, the "Model-T," of such a program.

# Discussion

IRC nick: N-Angulator

-   Q1: Can this be considered as a UI to manage hardlinks with
    additional functionality such as listing the hardlinks of a single
    file?
    -   A: that is part of what it could be considered.   I see it more
        as re-imagining the Unix/Linux file system as a data cloud
-   Q2: Remark: I did a PhD on that very same topic:
    <https://karl-voit.at/tagstore/en/papers.shtml> - Your approach does
    seeom to have similarities to the Semantic File System (Gifford et
    al) or SemFS (Mohan at al) or TagFS (Bloehdorn et al).
    -   A: yes, I just started checking it out.   I was not aware of any
        of those when I wrote it.   I just had a need for a much more
        comprehensive filing/retrieval system to support my various
        activities (law, programming, time management, etc\...).   It
        worked amazingly well at the time but \"life happened\" and I
        was never really able to keep it up with the times like porting
        it from the orphaned XEmacs into FSF and promote it at all.
-   <https://github.com/vigilancetech-com/N-Angulator>


- N-Angulator: I wrote it 10 years ago and am no porting it to GNU emacs
- is this a graph-as-filesystem
- I'd much rather work with keybindings rather than clicking things. Is there support for that?
  - N-Angulator: I think the menu system does automatically assign some unique keys but it's been a long time since I looked at it
- I love these kind of advanced file systems
- This is weirdware in the best sort of way.
- Are you familiar with tagstore/TagTrees (by me) or Semantic File System (Gifford et al) or SemFS (Mohan at al) or TagFS (Blöhdorn et al)? my work: https://karl-voit.at/tagstore/en/papers.shtml -> preferably the PhD document that summarizes everything

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