00:39 <mon_aaraj> I kind of find the tag system confusing to work with, even after using river for about a year (and yes, i've read the how tags work wiki article)

00:40 <mon_aaraj> especially with how it's used with shell scripts, it feels like trying to fit a small cube into a circular hole - it probably fits, but it kind of feels weird to work with, in my opinion. maybe i just haven't taken enough time to experiment with it though

00:40 <mon_aaraj> i don't mean to be rude, it's just what i've felt while working with river. i appreciate this compositor and i really love it, with all the work that was put into it, and especially the maintainers and contributors :)

01:43 <NickH> What is the relationship between tags and shell scripts that you are referring to?

03:26 <mon_aaraj> err, maybe not just shell scripts, but in programming overall - it's just confusing - in bash, i constantly get confused by `<<` and i am not quite familiar with bit-fiddling enough to know what it exactly does and what the purpose of doing that is. i may just be an idiot though

03:28 <tleydxdy[m]> it just shifts the bits to the left

03:28 <tleydxdy[m]> each bit is a tag

03:32 <tleydxdy[m]> If you have a bar that show you the tags I guess the simplest way to see it is to look at those, each one is a bit

03:33 <tleydxdy[m]> it can either be 0 (not selected) or 1 (selected)