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+# Introducing N-Angulator
+Kevin Haddock
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+<https://github.com/vigilancetech-com/N-Angulator>
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+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
+
+- From [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggmfWPmse_w&feature=em-comments): Any chance you can explain what this package can actually do? I don't want to be critical. It looks interesting but I just don't know what to do with this.
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