[aur-general] How about hashtags in package description?

[Loui Chang]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 08:32:29PM +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:55:01 +0100
> Jens Maucher <jensmaucher at online.de> wrote:
> 
> > Am Sonntag 15 März 2009 17:00:05 schrieb Pierre Chapuis:
> > > Le Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:54:12 -0400,
> > >
> > > Daenyth Blank <daenyth+arch at gmail.com> a écrit :
> > > > > What's the practical difference between a tag and a hashtag?
> > > >
> > > > I think that he means to put tags as comments? I have no clue
> > > > really
> > >
> > > I thought he was talking about something like tags used in Jabber or
> > > Identi.ca posts. They are inline and begin with a hash, like that:
> > >
> > > I think #Arch #Linux is awesome.
> > 
> > The sense escapes me. o_O
> 
> I see people doing this on twitter.
> Functionality-wise they are just tags.
> the hash ('#') sign in front is to just mark "this is a tag", which is
> useful for other tools and scripts to parse/categorize/... content 

So it isn't really any more useful than just searching a well written
description eh?