[tw] Re: [AddOn] file-backups - "TiddlyWiki File Save and Backup" V0.3.5 small bugfix release

[Zyb]

Thanks, wjam, for this method, just tested it and it works nicely! That 
would have saved my ass two days ago ...

Am Freitag, 9. März 2018 20:03:17 UTC+1 schrieb wjam:
>
> export to json is done using advanced search
>
> goto filter tab,
>
>  enter the filtertext below 
>
> [!is[system]!sort[modified]limit[25]]
>
> Check the list of tiddlers.
>
> adjust the number "25" to make sure you found  all your recently modified 
> tiddlers
>
> Then press the bucket with the up arrow [_^_] which appears on the right
>
> This will ask for a location to store the tiddlers into a file called 
> tiddler.json on your local drive. Press save.
>
> the tiddlers.json file can be imported (tools in sidebar) or drag and drop 
> file on the top line of the story river of anather tw . (Press Esc if you 
> change your mind ;-). You can (de)select specific tiddlers. Then press 
> import.
>
> Similar In the viewtoolbar of a tiddler you can export the current tiddler.
>
> Njoy
> Kr wjam
>
>

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[tw] Re: [AddOn] file-backups - "TiddlyWiki File Save and Backup" V0.3.5 small bugfix release

[Zyb]

Mark: Yes, that is what I’m saying. And it’s worse: I let TW save on 
tiddler edit and the little popup box in the upper right corner that says 
‘saved wiki’ *does* appear to signal the save when the tiddler is changed 
from draft to normal. So TW is lying about its status in the user 
notification -- the only signal for the unsaved status is the ‘save 
changes’ icon in the menu which doesn’t change colour.

Of course it would help if TW detected a failed save attempt to spit out a 
proper warning.

Am Freitag, 9. März 2018 20:37:52 UTC+1 schrieb Mark S.:
>
> Zyb is saying (I think) that the failure occurred silently. That is, it 
> didn't announce that it wasn't saving. So your method would fail just like 
> the DropBox method, because no new edits were being saved to disk.
>
> Maybe TW needs to make a bigger fuss when a save fails so that the user 
> knows to stop working. It already does this when running on node.js.
>
> -- Mark
>
> On Friday, March 9, 2018 at 11:12:37 AM UTC-8, @TiddlyTweeter wrote:
>>
>> Ciao Zyb
>>
>> To the people suggesting backups: You’re aware, right? that we are 
>>> talking about unsaved (and unsavable), ‘dirty’ files here, for which the 
>>> backup process (simultaneous to the save) has already failed
>>>
>>
>> ABSOLUTELY. That is why I run redundant backup that checks for changes 
>> every 5 minutes. External backup is simply the reliable method with the 
>> least hassle. 
>>
>> The other writers who are talking about JSON scenarios are correct, but 
>> overlooking breakdown scenarios.
>>
>> Best wishes
>> Josiah
>>
>

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[tw] Re: [AddOn] file-backups - "TiddlyWiki File Save and Backup" V0.3.5 small bugfix release

[Zyb]

Thanks for the sympathy. ;-) To the people suggesting backups: You’re 
aware, right? that we are talking about unsaved (and unsavable), ‘dirty’ 
files here, for which the backup process (simultaneous to the save) has 
already failed and cannot be fixed without restarting the browser, thus 
closing the dirty TW file, thus resulting in the data loss I’m talking 
about? That is why Dropbox won’t help (I suspect), either, because it only 
uploads edited files, but a dirty TW will not be detected as edited. I have 
plenty of backups right up until FF updated Mario’s addon and rendered it 
nonfunctional in the process.

Before I even read up on what ‘export JSON’ means, Thomas: Does that apply 
to a dirty, unsavable TW file? (Btw, I use your excellent 
TextStretch/Footnotes on one of my pages, thanks for that!)

All best,
Zyb

Am Freitag, 9. März 2018 18:42:10 UTC+1 schrieb Thomas Elmiger:
>
> Hey people, 
>
> I feel with Zyb too, data loss is always a disaster or a disappointment at 
> least. BUT in this case it was probably not necessary!!! 
>
> As described in my last post, there is a workaround for even this scenario 
> when Mario‘s save and backup (it covers that too!) refuses to save: export 
> JSON. 
>
> So: Know your tools, backup and you will be as safe as possible in these 
> days. 
>
> All the best, 
> Thomas

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[tw] Re: [AddOn] file-backups - "TiddlyWiki File Save and Backup" V0.3.5 small bugfix release

[Zyb]

I have the greatest respect for your work, Mario, and am eternally greatful 
for your addon. If my posts sounded a little testy, I apologize, but I am 
quite angry, actually. Not at you personally of course, nor at Jeremy or 
anyone, but at a situation where I sit here replicating hours of lost work 
in dozens of tiddlers and thinking about the depressing fact that, in 2018 
for crying out loud, the one piece of software that enriched my personal 
and professional life more than any other tool and which I think is the 
greatest thing since sliced bread, fails to save my work when I need it 
saved. Yesterday, I thought -- as I regularly do ever since the FF update 
last year -- about ditching TW and reverting to the half dozen or so 
applications which I used to use for stuff that I now do in TW. Because 
they save my work without, you know, an addon with all the crappy 
dependencies and unknowns and (your phrasing is ironic really) “edge 
cases”. Sure, that would feel as bad as reverting to ink and paper, or to 
chiseling letters on marble slabs, but hey -- my data is safer than in TW. 
I don’t know what you guys use TW for, but I do professional work with it, 
precious work not only in terms of invested time, I *think* with it, I 
produce scholarship. And TW is an integral part of why I love my job, 
because it elevates me in my professionalism. But that also means I *depend* 
on TW, I *need* it working. This is why it totally horrifies me when the 
one single thing the only function of which it is to keep my work safe -- 
fails. And it totally deflates my faith in TW that there even is a 
situation where a third party addon has to fulfil that function (yes, I 
know, this situation has been around since TW2 -- and if I could go back in 
time knowing how fundamentally broken TW’s dependency on a browser is when 
it needs a hack to be able to save it, I’d delete the day I stumbled upon 
TW and had my mind blown just to save myself the heartache of ditching it 
many years later). You know, I used to recommend TW to colleagues and 
friends, I created a customized TW2 empty.html to make it easier for them 
-- not only don’t I do that anymore, I cringe with awkwardness at my own 
enthusiasm. They all stopped using it, “Zyb, this thing you gave me doesn’t 
work any more, don’t know what happened.” and I stopped trying to fix it 
for them, I shrug and say “Yeah, I’m sorry.”, because TW’s problem seems to 
be unfixable.

Phew. Sorry for the rant. I guess I needed that if none of you guys do. 
Yes, I’m bitter. Please, also, if you’re tempted: refrain from giving me 
‘good advice’. I did look into it: TW Standalone is unusable and don’t even 
get me started on that server thingy.

Zyb


Am Freitag, 9. März 2018 10:05:19 UTC+1 schrieb PMario:
>
> On Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 6:42:24 PM UTC+1, Zyb wrote:
>>
>>  Are you saying that the addon was updated not on browser startup but at 
>> an arbitrary point in between?
>>
>
> I think, it's a browser background task. ... but there is no description 
> how updates happen. .. At least I haven't found one ... 
>  
>
>> How could I have even noticed that?
>>
>
> I will have a look, if there is a possibility to notify users. 
>  
>
>> Why would it render the wikis unsavable until restart (which means losing 
>> the work already done)?
>>
>
> As I wrote in the other post, it may be needed to reload the tab after a 
> plugin update. .. I'll have a look, if a "running tab" can detect plugin 
> updates. ATM I don't know, if there is any signal from the browser and if 
> we can *reliably detect it*.  
>  
>
>> That’s not something that should happen, ever, I think.
>>
>
> You are right. ... But there are always edge cases, a developer didn't 
> think about. ..
>
> Testing is hard. As I wrote, to test updates you have to make updates. 
>
> I can test the plugin with windows 10 and an ubuntu system. 
> I don't have the possibility to test with macOS. ... So I'm 100% dependent 
> on user feedback. .. If no feedback happens, .. nothing happens. 
>
> Mozilla is switching off the "beta channel 
> <https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2018/02/28/discontinuing-support-for-beta-versions/>".
>  
> That's what I had to find out, as I started to have a look, how I can use 
> it. 
>
> As I wrote in my first post, the plugin should have not been listed and it 
> should have not been auto-updated. 
>
> At the moment, I try to find out, how to create a signed beta-version, 
> that can be published at github, without the mozilla store auto-update 
> thing. 
> The problem then is. ... What happens if users switch from beta to stable 
> ... That's a new mechanism, where things can go wrong. ... AND we have to 
> test it. 
>
> -mario
>
>

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[tw] Re: [AddOn] file-backups - "TiddlyWiki File Save and Backup" V0.3.5 small bugfix release

[Zyb]

Yeah, I switched off auto-updates now ... but ... I mean, I accept that a 
browser restart is necessary to load the new version of an addon -- but why 
does the mere update process render the previous version non-functional 
until the restart? Is that indeed a usual thing happening? I can’t remember 
having any such problem with another FF addon before.

Am Donnerstag, 8. März 2018 20:08:51 UTC+1 schrieb Thomas Elmiger:
>
> Confirming: After the update a browser restart is necessary, otherwise the 
> ability to save is lost. (Mac, FF Developer Edition)
>
> Maybe the plugin could spit out a warning? 
>
> This is why I switched off auto-updates in the plugin settings some time 
> ago. Nevertheless I forgot to restart and had to export a JSON file from 
> the advanced search for the last changed tiddlers ...
>
> Thank you anyway for this great tool!
> Thomas
>
>

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[tw] Re: [AddOn] file-backups - "TiddlyWiki File Save and Backup" V0.3.5 small bugfix release

[Zyb]

What do you mean ‘restart my browser’? I started it up this morning, did 
some work (TW5) and then noticed that I couldn’t save it. Went to the forum 
and immediately saw your update notice (thanks for posting those, btw)

 Are you saying that the addon was updated not on browser startup but at an 
arbitrary point in between? How could I have noticed that? Why would it 
render the wikis unsavable until restart?

Best,
Zyb

Am Donnerstag, 8. März 2018 16:38:06 UTC+1 schrieb PMario:
>
> On Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 4:08:59 PM UTC+1, Zyb wrote:
>>
>> With the new version of the add-on (I presume because nothing else has 
>> changed since yesterday), my TWs won’t save and won’t backup anymore. 
>> Windows 7, FF 58.0.2. Hope you can fix the fix quickly. :)
>>
>
> Hi, 
> Did you restart your browser? 
> Which TW version 2 or 5?
> What did you do?
> -m
>

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[tw] Re: [AddOn] file-backups - "TiddlyWiki File Save and Backup" V0.3.5 small bugfix release

[Zyb]

Hey Mario,

With the new version of the add-on (I presume because nothing else has 
changed since yesterday), my TWs won’t save and won’t backup anymore. 
Windows 7, FF 58.0.2. Hope you can fix the fix quickly. :)

All best,
Zyb

Am Mittwoch, 7. März 2018 18:53:03 UTC+1 schrieb PMario:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I did just release the new Version 0.3.5 of the file-backups AddOn for 
> firefox. It's a small bugfix version. 
>
> Fixed 
>
>- External links shouldn't have duplicate detection ... issue #16 
><https://github.com/pmario/file-backups/issues/16>
>
>
> Learn more at: https://github.com/pmario/file-backups/releases/tag/V0.3.5
>
> *If you have any problems, please let me know. *
>
> The goal was, to release a signed-beta and self-publish it at github. ... 
> But it seems I only can have one thing. Self-publishing or Mozilla Store 
> :(. 
>
> I will try to find out, how to create a "beta-channel" for those who want 
> to help me testing. 
>
> have fun!
> mario
>
>
>

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[tw] Re: [AddOn] file-backups - "TiddlyWiki File Save and Backup" is an official FireFox AddOn

[Zyb]

Same for me after I updated the addon yesterday. The TW is being saved it 
seems (so no data loss when you close it despite the warning), but it is 
not marked as saved.

Am Mittwoch, 20. Dezember 2017 13:34:54 UTC+1 schrieb Thomas Elmiger:
>
> Hi Mario,
>
> Sounds like good news, but the (previous) version stopped working for me 
> yesterday at home and today at the office, both in FF 57 Win and in FF 
> Developer 58 on the Mac :(
>
> After an update to the new version on Windows the downloads happen again, 
> but without TW noticing the save process (TW 5.1.14) – the download icon 
> stays red and an alert pops up when I close TW after saving.
>
> Is there a special upgrade procedure? Can there be a connection between 
> you/FF publishing a new version and the old version stopping to work?
>
> All the best, 
> Thomas
>
> Am Dienstag, 19. Dezember 2017 17:35:42 UTC+1 schrieb PMario:
>>
>> Hi Folks, 
>>
>> I'm happy to announce, that:
>>
>> *AddOn: file-backups* 
>>  "TiddlyWiki 
>> File Save and Backup" is an official FireFox AddOn!
>>
>

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[tw] Re: [INTRO] File Save and Backup AddOn for FireFox 57++

[Zyb]

Wait, I think I made a mistake -- the whole thing seems to be simpler than 
I thought.

>From Mario’s description I thought FF only allows saves in the _Windows_ 
download folder, but it allows saves in the _Firefox_ download folder; it’s 
just that in Mario’s video he incidentally uses the standard Windows 
download folder. So I opened my test TW from the Windows download folder, 
expecting that all saves would automatically go there (that’s how I 
understood Marios addon to work). But I didn’t check my non-standard 
Firefox download folder properly -- it seems that all the saves after the 
first one (I still don’t understand this part) were saved to that 
non-standard folder. Then I fiddled with the settings and got confused.

Anyway, everything seems to work when the TWs are opened from the folder 
that, in the Firefox settings, is specified as download folder -- standard 
or non-standard doesn’t matter. Sorry for the confucion, I’m happy ... I 
think. ;)

Zyb

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[tw] Re: [INTRO] File Save and Backup AddOn for FireFox 57++

[Zyb]

Mark,

The latter: a non-standard download location.

Am Mittwoch, 15. November 2017 20:51:24 UTC+1 schrieb Mark S.:
>
> By customizable, do you mean the setting where you get asked each time 
> where to save, or do you mean a non-standard download location (that gets 
> used for every save?)
>
> -- Mark
>
> On Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at 11:22:14 AM UTC-8, Zyb wrote:
>>
>> Mario,
>>
>> Thanks a lot! Tested it on Win 7 64 Bit, FF 57. Saving and backups work 
>> ONLY if the FF download folder is set to the Windows download folder. If 
>> this is not the case, i.e. in the FF options a custom folder is set for 
>> downloads, only the very first save (after the "save again!" notice) works, 
>> but no later saves and no backups. The temp(x).html is saved to the custom 
>> folder.
>>
>> I could have accepted moving all my TWs into the Windows download folder, 
>> but I rely on a custom folder for FF downloads because in my job I handle 
>> dozens of files everyday from various sources which I aggregate in one 
>> folder and then sort to where I need them. So if the download destination 
>> is not customizable for your Addon to work, it makes it effectively 
>> unusable for me, unfortunately.
>>
>> Hope there is a way! :)
>>
>> Zyb
>>
>

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[tw] Re: [INTRO] File Save and Backup AddOn for FireFox 57++

[Zyb]

Mario,

Thanks a lot! Tested it on Win 7 64 Bit, FF 57. Saving and backups work 
ONLY if the FF download folder is set to the Windows download folder. If 
this is not the case, i.e. in the FF options a custom folder is set for 
downloads, only the very first save (after the "save again!" notice) works, 
but no later saves and no backups. The temp(x).html is saved to the custom 
folder.

I could have accepted moving all my TWs into the Windows download folder, 
but I rely on a custom folder for FF downloads because in my job I handle 
dozens of files everyday from various sources which I aggregate in one 
folder and then sort to where I need them. So if the download destination 
is not customizable for your Addon to work, it makes it effectively 
unusable for me, unfortunately.

Hope there is a way! :)

Zyb

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[tw] [TW5] how to make swatch macro more flexible

[Zyb]

I’m playing around with palettes and I noticed that the swatches remain 
blank when the respective palette entry doesn’t contain a hex code but 
another call of <>.

Since I am using a system adapted from the Solar Flare palette which works 
with base colours, I use hex codes only for custom colour styles and 
reference them with calls (like for example <>) for 
all existing TW styles in the palette editor. I.e. none of the swatch 
‘types’ have a hex code entry and all swatch fields are white which makes 
the palette preview useless.

For reference, this is $:/snippets/currpalettepreview where the swatches 
are defined. Can value={{##$colour$}} be changed to do what I want, i.e. 
resolve the call of <>?

\define swatchStyle()
background-color: $(swatchColour)$;
\end
\define swatch(colour)
<$set name="swatchColour" value={{##$colour$}}>
>/>

\end

<>
<>
<>
<>
<>
<>
<>


Thanks! Tyll

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[tw] Re: [TW5] [Plugin Idea] Referencing tool for researchers

[Zyb]

I did play around a little over Easter after all, and made first steps 
adapting Thomas Elmiger’s TextStretch Footnotes: 
https://tid.li/tw5/hacks.html#TextStretch%20Footnotes%20Extracted%20as%20List

This, combined with templates to parse the BibTeX entries and CSS tweaks 
could go into the right direction, e.g.

<>

could theoretically be made to display as (Bishop 2010: 59), with a popup 
note containing the full reference, in this case Bishop, Kyle William. 
*American 
Zombie Gothic: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Walking Dead in Popular 
Culture*. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2010. Print.

In practice, this gets too complicated, though, when it comes to parsing 
the BibTeX entries in the templates tShort and tLong: I simply don’t know 
enough about manipulating field values (string variables) in TW or how to 
integrate possibly already existing style parsers. For example, the 
bibtex-author field for the above example has the value "Bishop, Kyle 
William" -- how do I even extract the last name from this? The bibtex-title 
field has the value "American {Zombie} {Gothic}: {The} {Rise} and {Fall} 
(and {Rise}) of the {Walking} {Dead} in {Popular} {Culture}" which enables 
title case -- but how do I get rid of the curly parentheses?

I don’t seek answers for these questions right now, I just document here 
what kinds of problems need to be solved.

I’ll put this on ice for now. If anyone is interested pursuing this, I 
promise eternal gratitude ... :)

Best,
Tyll

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[tw] Re: Presenting: Plain Tabs - just a plainer tab look

[Zyb]

Groundbreaking! Awe-inspiring! :)

No seriously, I like it and will use it -- the old tabs have such a 2002 
look. ;) Is the separating border to the bottom of deselected tabs (or to 
the right of them, if vertical) not stylable?

Best,
Tyll

Am Dienstag, 18. April 2017 18:03:10 UTC+2 schrieb Mat:
>
> Yes, the world leading 
> *TWaddle Enterprises* have once again decided to pause their nuclear 
> research
> to create something of utmost importance:
>
> Plain Tabs 
>
> ...they are... um, well, just plainer and lighter looking tabs. I always 
> found the gray tabs too dominant.
>
> <:-)
>

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[tw] [TW5] [Plugin Idea] Referencing tool for researchers

[Zyb]

With the new plugin for BibTeX import announced in the TW pre-release, I 
would like to suggest a referencing plugin. I don’t have the knowledge and 
resources to develop it myself, but I can offer suggestions and testing for 
what I think would be a valuable contribution to TW for research and 
academic publishing purposes.

The BibTeX import creates tiddlers with title = citationKey and writes all 
data entries into fields. A referencing plugin would provide two main 
functions: a) in-text citation and b) insertion of a bibliography/works 
cited list; both functions would ideally be configurable according to 
different academic style conventions with – again: ideally – the 
possibility to customise or add new styles.

a) In-text citation

The two main styles of in-text citation used in academic texts are 
footnotes and inline citation. The latter usually consists of an entry like 
"(Author Year: Page)", without the quotation marks. A TW reference could 
usefully look like a macro `<>`. (I don’t really know whether this notation is correct.) All 
parameters except source would be optional, style and format should be 
globally configurable. Style could take options like `APA`, `MLA`, 
`Chicago` and the like, or `FN` for footnotes. An autocomplete option for 
the citationKey or an easy preview would be cool.

The HTML output should be a in a `CITE` element with a fixed CSS class that 
can be manipulated if necessary.

b) Bibliography

A `<>` macro should collect all `<>` entries and 
generate a customisable list of the respective bibliographical entries, 
either as footnotes with preceding numbers in the order they appear in the 
text, or as works cited list sorted by author name. The entries need to 
conform to the globally configured style, or to a custom format. Parsing 
BibTeX data into a correct bibliographical entry can be fairly involved but 
I would hope that solutions for this already exist (Zotero.org has xml 
style templates which could be used or serve as inspiration).

It would be useful if the bibliography can be inserted anywhere, so the 
macro should take a parameter `<>`.

Useful configuration options for the bibliography macro (overriding global 
style settings) would be:

* Number of author names to display in full before et al. abbreviation is 
used [integer].
* Provide links for online sources (if available) [boolean].
* First names initialised instead of displayed in full [boolean].
* Force use of title case for publication titles (regardless of BibTeX 
data) [boolean]. (This would need another parser.)

The HTML output should be nested in a `DIV` element with a fixed CSS class 
that can be manipulated if necessary.

I’d be interested in any comments.

Thanks for reading!
Tyll

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Re: [tw] TiddlyFox seemed to stop working

[Zyb]

I just lost some work because of this. There was no warning, just the 
download prompt which I declined. Since the TW save message was displayed 
and the save icon lost its highlight, I’d assumed that everything was okay. 
On reload, my edits were gone. I only noticed the new icon now that I read 
this thread. :-/

Am Mittwoch, 12. April 2017 16:45:17 UTC+2 schrieb Jeremy Ruston:
>
> Hi Ed
>
> An hour or so ago I could not save my TW5's anymore.
> When loading a TW5-file the familiar warning did not show up.
> I see that TiddlyWiki for FireFox is updated just today.
> I'm using FireFox 52.0.2 (32 bits)
> When saving I am offered to download the file after that
> I need to reload to continue working.
> What's up, Jeremy?
>
>
> When you first load a TiddlyWiki file from a file:// URI the 
> TiddlyFox toolbar icon will show a blue ball. Clicking it will bring up a 
> panel with a big green "Enable" button that enables saving for that file. 
> The TiddlyFox toolbar icon then switches to green to indicate that saving 
> is enabled.
>
> The permission settings are preserved between sessions, but are not 
> carried over from earlier versions of TiddlyFox.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jeremy
>
>
> Thanks in advance for comments.
> Tschüß! Ed
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[tw] Re: [TW5] Way to open certain tiddlers as draft by default?

[Zyb]

Thank you, Mat, for your help! This makes me want to fiddle around with 
code. :)

Am Montag, 10. April 2017 02:06:56 UTC+2 schrieb Mat:
>
>  
>
>> Re EditTextWidget: Do I understand you correctly that your suggestion 
>> would be to actually work with two tiddlers, one content/data tiddler and 
>> one edit tiddler? The latter would contain only the edit widget displaying 
>> the content of the data tiddler, but I would use it for all intents and 
>> purposes as if it were the data tiddler. Yes, okay, that could work. I 
>> haven’t worked with the EditTextWidget before, I give it a try!
>>
>
> Yeah, that basically it. But you can also use a EditTextWidget or perhaps 
> a SelectWidget for the title, meaning that when you enter the title, you 
> get the text in another bigger EditTextWidget field. 
>
>
> (Edit: This works in principle, but because the changes are applied in 
>> real time things become awkward for stylesheets, when everytime I haven’t 
>> yet closed a bracket, parts of the wiki layout disintegrate ... ;) Is there 
>> a way to postpone the changes in the widget and send them on click of an 
>> additional button or something? Yet, the more complex this becomes the more 
>> it simply mimics the normal draft behaviour of TW, doesn’t it ...)
>>
>
> Yes, the trick is to use a temporary tiddler. So basically via a button 
> (e.g the SelectWidget... at least I think that should work) you'd copy the 
> current into the temporary and then when done you click another button that 
> overwrites the temp content into the original.
>  
>
> And what kind of template did you use for this; or more generally: I don’t 
>> understand how templates come into play with the widget at all, could you 
>> explain?
>>
>
> I might use the term sloppily. I merely referred to an old thing based on 
> what I described above with a EditTextWidget for the title and another for 
> the text. (Side note: A cool discovery in that process was that you could 
> create tiddlers *silently *by entering a new title and filling in text. 
> That evolved into QuickTid .)
>
> <:-)
>

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[tw] Re: Positive Assertions In One Sentence ... (aka Saying Succinctly What TW Is About ...)

[Zyb]

A couple of one-liners I’ve extracted from a mail of praise I wrote to 
Jeremy some years ago; and some additions. ;)

<<<
As a writer, TiddlyWiki makes me more productive and more expressive: I use 
it to take notes, to draft, to structure, to polish.

As a teacher, TiddlyWiki makes me more organised and more creative: I use 
it to collect material, to design seminars and prepare sessions.

As a researcher, TiddlyWiki makes me faster and more innovative: I use it 
to collect ideas and literature, to collate and analyse data, to brainstorm 
and refine my insights, to draft presentations and publications.

TiddlyWiki stores my thoughts in one place, easily accessible and quickly 
editable with a minimum amount of clicks.

TiddlyWiki provides speed and flexibility in cross-referencing, sorting, 
searching, finding – simply *using *– all my notes.

TiddlyWiki is slick and responsive: It follows my line of thinking, it 
takes shape at my fingertips, it empowers my thought processes instead of 
slowing them down.
<<<

All best,
Tyll

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[tw] Re: [TW5] Way to open certain tiddlers as draft by default?

[Zyb]

Thanks Mat!

What I came up with in the meantime was that I created a tiddler QuickEdit 
and added this list filter to it


<$list filter="[tag[QuickEdit]]"><$button message="tm-edit-tiddler" 
param=<> class="tc-btn-invisible 
tc-tiddlylink">{{$:/core/ui/Buttons/edit}} <>



I tagged all the respective tiddlers with QuickEdit and transcluded the 
tiddler in a designated sidebar section, fancied up with a little CSS. For 
now, this serves the purpose well enough (sort by title is okay because I 
have strict naming rules), but of course I will run into trouble once the 
list becomes very long. Plus, such a separate list is not strictly 
necessary, I’d prefer a universal solution where links to tagged tiddlers 
are treated thus all through TW, no matter where they occur.

Re EditTextWidget: Do I understand you correctly that your suggestion would 
be to actually work with two tiddlers, one content/data tiddler and one 
edit tiddler? The latter would contain only the edit widget displaying the 
content of the data tiddler, but I would use it for all intents and 
purposes as if it were the data tiddler. Yes, okay, that could work. I 
haven’t worked with the EditTextWidget before, I give it a try!

And what kind of template did you use for this?

Thanks again and all best!
Tyll

Am Sonntag, 9. April 2017 22:34:55 UTC+2 schrieb Mat:
>
> Good idea. I posted it as a github request issue 
> . In deed, the 
> absolute majority of system plugins are just irrelevant ti view!
>
> One route may be to use the EditTextWidget 
>  for things you only want to edit. 
> I.e put it in another tiddler and have it display the contents from the 
> tiddlers you want to edit. If this sounds relevant for you then I'll see if 
> I can dig up an old template I made for this.
>
> <:-)
>

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[tw] [TW5] Way to open certain tiddlers as draft by default?

[Zyb]

Dear all,

I’ve noticed that there is a group of tiddlers in my main TW that I only 
ever open to edit them, like custom stylesheets or tiddlers that collect 
data: I don’t *look* at their content, I just add to it and manipulate it, 
so that other tiddlers do stuff with their content. It would add to my 
productivity if any links to these tiddlers (especially those in the ToC) 
would open them as drafts immediately, without the need to open them first 
and then click on the edit button.

Is there a way to change all links of, say, tiddlers with a specific tag, 
into edit links (button widgets, if I’m not mistaken)? Or that a clickable 
edit icon is appended to the (normal) link?

I’ve been using TWC and TW5 for a long time and can understand some code, 
but I don’t have experience programming plugins, so any hint is 
appreciated! :)

All best,
Tyll

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