Re: [tw5] Re: Thinking through a plugin and the excise dropdown

2021-07-15 Thread David Gifford
Hi springer

<>
<>

Results in an empty line between the details elements of the two macros.
(in other words "double-spaced")

<$macrocall $name=det tid="Failures of commentaries"/>
<$macrocall $name=det tid="Failures of commentaries"/>

Results in them displaying with no empty line. ("single-spaced")



On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 10:48 AM springer 
wrote:

> David,
>
> I'm playing with using the existing excise button with "macro" option
> (specifying your det macro), and I'm not yet seeing how your complaint
> about extra  tags works. That is, I'm getting results that look just
> like your more baroque macrocalls.
>
> In other words, editing the home outline tiddler at your site, if I replace
>
> <$macrocall $name=det tid="Failures of commentaries"/>
>
> with
>
> <>
>
> I see no difference in how the result displays, either collapsed or
> expanded. Could you clarify what the problem is?
>
> -Springer
>
> On Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 9:19:47 AM UTC-4 David Gifford wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> Yesterday I teased a modest macro that has the capability of turning
>> TiddlyWiki into an outliner.
>> https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/gCp5ONBxFXg (first half)
>>
>> I am thinking about packaging it as a plugin called Subsume, but one item
>> seems to call for attention.
>>
>> If I could add this macro as a new option for the excise dropdown, not as
>> a macro but as a macrocall, that would allow users to excise text and turn
>> it into a link/slider in the present tiddler instead of transcluding it or
>> linking it.
>>
>> But two things hold me back:
>> 1. After playing with the excise dropdown tiddler for a while I am still
>> not sure how it works or how to add another dropdown option to it.
>> 2. Even if I knew how to do that, this would mean that my plugin would
>> need to change some core tiddlers. And this would make it un-future-proof.
>>
>> What chance is there of eventually having the excise dropdown be as easy
>> to add options to via tags, as, say, the pagecontrol buttons and sidebar
>> tabs? Maybe my macrocall is not the only way people might want to customize
>> excising.
>>
>> And, does anyone know how to tweak the excise set of tiddlers as it
>> stands so that I could insert a named macrocall of the tiddler instead of a
>> transclusion, macro or link?
>>
>> (In case any of you are wondering, I need macrocall instead of a normal
>> macro to avoid the  that causes extra spacing above and below macros)
>>
>> Blessings, Dave
>>
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[tw5] Re: Thinking through a plugin and the excise dropdown

2021-07-15 Thread springer
David,

I'm playing with using the existing excise button with "macro" option 
(specifying your det macro), and I'm not yet seeing how your complaint 
about extra  tags works. That is, I'm getting results that look just 
like your more baroque macrocalls. 

In other words, editing the home outline tiddler at your site, if I replace

<$macrocall $name=det tid="Failures of commentaries"/>

with

<>

I see no difference in how the result displays, either collapsed or 
expanded. Could you clarify what the problem is?

-Springer

On Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 9:19:47 AM UTC-4 David Gifford wrote:

>
> Hi everyone
>
> Yesterday I teased a modest macro that has the capability of turning 
> TiddlyWiki into an outliner. 
> https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/gCp5ONBxFXg (first half)
>
> I am thinking about packaging it as a plugin called Subsume, but one item 
> seems to call for attention.
>
> If I could add this macro as a new option for the excise dropdown, not as 
> a macro but as a macrocall, that would allow users to excise text and turn 
> it into a link/slider in the present tiddler instead of transcluding it or 
> linking it.
>
> But two things hold me back:
> 1. After playing with the excise dropdown tiddler for a while I am still 
> not sure how it works or how to add another dropdown option to it.
> 2. Even if I knew how to do that, this would mean that my plugin would 
> need to change some core tiddlers. And this would make it un-future-proof.
>
> What chance is there of eventually having the excise dropdown be as easy 
> to add options to via tags, as, say, the pagecontrol buttons and sidebar 
> tabs? Maybe my macrocall is not the only way people might want to customize 
> excising.
>
> And, does anyone know how to tweak the excise set of tiddlers as it stands 
> so that I could insert a named macrocall of the tiddler instead of a 
> transclusion, macro or link?
>
> (In case any of you are wondering, I need macrocall instead of a normal 
> macro to avoid the  that causes extra spacing above and below macros)
>
> Blessings, Dave
>

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[tw5] Re: Thinking through a plugin and the excise dropdown

2021-07-15 Thread springer
David,

Yes, I did see that your edit-mode [det] button would take the selected 
text and treat it as the name of the tiddler (the one to be displayed 
within the details "pocket"). This is ideal for the situation where the 
other tiddler already exists. For my writing and editing process, by 
contrast, I'm almost always finding that the thing I want to tuck into a 
details "pocket" is initially right there in the same tiddler. 

In fact, prior to seeing your solution, I had been looking forward to 
trying to reverse-engineer a variant of the excise button that dovetails 
with telmiger's details widget (rather than transcluding or linking), 
though I would be terribly slow at the work.

And despite being very fond of telmiger's details plugin with all of its 
css flexibility, I do see advantages in your model, including the elegance 
of typing (and reading) <>, plus the subtle built-in 
asterisk-link to go straight to the tiddler in question. 

Still, one other feature/option that may be of interest (based on spending 
lots of time working with <$details> widgets, which allows summary to be 
specified as a parameter): ability to prefer the caption (or some other 
specifiable field), as the preferred summary text, defaulting to title only 
if caption is unavailable. 

On your site, this tweaked variant seems to get the macro to show caption 
(as summary) if it exists, and to default to title if not:

\relink det tid
\define det(tid:"") <$transclude tiddler="$tid$" 
field="caption"><$view tiddler="$tid$" 
field="title"/><$link 
to="$tid$">*<$transclude tiddler="$tid$" field="text" 
mode="block"/>

-Springer

[Sorry for blinking you all with a post-delete-repost; I found a small typo 
in the macro, which should be fixed now.]
On Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 9:37:43 AM UTC-4 David Gifford wrote:

> So that's why I couldn't post a reply, you had just deleted your post! 
> Here is what I was replying: 
>
> Hi springer,
>
> 1. I don't know if I updated the teaser version, but in the main file I am 
> tinkering with, selecting text and clicking the ted button does wrap the 
> text.
>
> 2. I literally just posted a question about having ted (which I am 
> planning to call Subsume) be another option the excise button dropdown. 
> Then saw your post.
>
> 3. I agree that is cleaner in EDIT to have it be double angle brackets. 
> But that forces double spacing, and I think it is much cleaner and flexible 
> in VIEW mode to allow users to have them singlespaced. And I doubt Jeremy 
> would allow tweaking to macros to eliminate the  that is the culprit 
> here. It would not be backwards compatible and could cause all kinds of 
> problems. I could have a second button to render it as double angle 
> brackets , I suppose. You CAN currently invoke it with  double angle 
> brackets by typing it.
>
> Dave
>
> On Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 8:29:35 AM UTC-5 springer wrote:
>
>> David,
>>
>> I'm so sorry to have just replied on your OTHER thread, requesting this 
>> very development, before reading this one! I'll go delete that, and put the 
>> guts of that message below...
>>
>> I'm thinking of a variant on "excise selected text into a new tiddler" 
>> that could take selected text, port it to a new tiddler (prompting for 
>> title, or defaulting to first line), and leave a corresponding details 
>> macro neatly in place of where the excised text is? This would be 
>> tremendously helpful in editing "overgrown" tiddlers (or paragraph 
>> sequences pasted in from elsewhere) and bringing a project closer to the 
>> ideal of tiddlers-as-smallest-useful-bits.
>>
>> For what it's worth, I'm with Saq in hoping to invoke it with <> "Component Idea">> -- much better for readability, sharing with newbies, 
>> etc., and would hope for the editor button to work that way as well.
>>
>> I wish I had time to tinker with these things myself so that I could 
>> offer tribute in the form of useful work, rather than chiming in as a 
>> backseat driver!
>>
>> -Springer
>>
>> On Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 9:19:47 AM UTC-4 David Gifford wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi everyone
>>>
>>> Yesterday I teased a modest macro that has the capability of turning 
>>> TiddlyWiki into an outliner. 
>>> https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/gCp5ONBxFXg (first half)
>>>
>>> I am thinking about packaging it as a plugin called Subsume, but one 
>>> item seems to call for attention.
>>>
>>> If I could add this macro as a new option for the excise dropdown, not 
>>> as a macro but as a macrocall, that would allow users to excise text and 
>>> turn it into a link/slider in the present tiddler instead of transcluding 
>>> it or linking it.
>>>
>>> But two things hold me back:
>>> 1. After playing with the excise dropdown tiddler for a while I am still 
>>> not sure how it works or how to add another dropdown option to it.
>>> 2. Even if I knew how to do that, this would mean that my plugin would 
>>> need to change some core tiddlers. And this would make it un-future-proof.

[tw5] Re: Thinking through a plugin and the excise dropdown

2021-07-15 Thread springer
David,

Yes, I did see that your edit-mode [det] button would take the selected 
text and treat it as the name of the tiddler (the one to be displayed 
within the details "pocket"). This is ideal for the situation where the 
other tiddler already exists. For my writing and editing process, by 
contrast, I'm almost always finding that the thing I want to tuck into a 
details "pocket" is initially right there in the same tiddler. 

In fact, prior to seeing your solution, I had been looking forward to 
trying to reverse-engineer a variant of the excise button that dovetails 
with telmiger's details widget (rather than transcluding or linking), 
though I would be terribly slow at the work.

And despite being very fond of telmiger's details plugin with all of its 
css flexibility, I do see advantages in your model, including the elegance 
of typing (and reading) <>.

Still, one other feature/option that may be of interest (based on spending 
lots of time working with <$details> widgets, which allows summary to be 
specified as a parameter): ability to prefer the caption (or some other 
specifiable field), as the preferred summary text, defaulting to title only 
if caption is unavailable. 

On your site, this tweaked variant seems to get the macro to show caption 
(as summary) if it exists, and to default to title if not:

\relink det tid
\define det(tid:"") <$transclude tiddler="$tid$" 
field="caption"> <$view tiddler="$tid$" field="title"> 
<$link to="$tid$">*<$transclude tiddler="$tid$" field="text" 
mode="block"/>

-Springer

On Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 9:37:43 AM UTC-4 David Gifford wrote:

> So that's why I couldn't post a reply, you had just deleted your post! 
> Here is what I was replying: 
>
> Hi springer,
>
> 1. I don't know if I updated the teaser version, but in the main file I am 
> tinkering with, selecting text and clicking the ted button does wrap the 
> text.
>
> 2. I literally just posted a question about having ted (which I am 
> planning to call Subsume) be another option the excise button dropdown. 
> Then saw your post.
>
> 3. I agree that is cleaner in EDIT to have it be double angle brackets. 
> But that forces double spacing, and I think it is much cleaner and flexible 
> in VIEW mode to allow users to have them singlespaced. And I doubt Jeremy 
> would allow tweaking to macros to eliminate the  that is the culprit 
> here. It would not be backwards compatible and could cause all kinds of 
> problems. I could have a second button to render it as double angle 
> brackets , I suppose. You CAN currently invoke it with  double angle 
> brackets by typing it.
>
> Dave
>
> On Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 8:29:35 AM UTC-5 springer wrote:
>
>> David,
>>
>> I'm so sorry to have just replied on your OTHER thread, requesting this 
>> very development, before reading this one! I'll go delete that, and put the 
>> guts of that message below...
>>
>> I'm thinking of a variant on "excise selected text into a new tiddler" 
>> that could take selected text, port it to a new tiddler (prompting for 
>> title, or defaulting to first line), and leave a corresponding details 
>> macro neatly in place of where the excised text is? This would be 
>> tremendously helpful in editing "overgrown" tiddlers (or paragraph 
>> sequences pasted in from elsewhere) and bringing a project closer to the 
>> ideal of tiddlers-as-smallest-useful-bits.
>>
>> For what it's worth, I'm with Saq in hoping to invoke it with <> "Component Idea">> -- much better for readability, sharing with newbies, 
>> etc., and would hope for the editor button to work that way as well.
>>
>> I wish I had time to tinker with these things myself so that I could 
>> offer tribute in the form of useful work, rather than chiming in as a 
>> backseat driver!
>>
>> -Springer
>>
>> On Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 9:19:47 AM UTC-4 David Gifford wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi everyone
>>>
>>> Yesterday I teased a modest macro that has the capability of turning 
>>> TiddlyWiki into an outliner. 
>>> https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/gCp5ONBxFXg (first half)
>>>
>>> I am thinking about packaging it as a plugin called Subsume, but one 
>>> item seems to call for attention.
>>>
>>> If I could add this macro as a new option for the excise dropdown, not 
>>> as a macro but as a macrocall, that would allow users to excise text and 
>>> turn it into a link/slider in the present tiddler instead of transcluding 
>>> it or linking it.
>>>
>>> But two things hold me back:
>>> 1. After playing with the excise dropdown tiddler for a while I am still 
>>> not sure how it works or how to add another dropdown option to it.
>>> 2. Even if I knew how to do that, this would mean that my plugin would 
>>> need to change some core tiddlers. And this would make it un-future-proof.
>>>
>>> What chance is there of eventually having the excise dropdown be as easy 
>>> to add options to via tags, as, say, the pagecontrol buttons and sidebar 
>>> tabs? Maybe my macrocall is not the 

[tw5] Re: Thinking through a plugin and the excise dropdown

2021-07-14 Thread TW Tones
David,

Surely the best way is to clone the excise toolbar button and add your 
variation to it. Then in the editor toolbar buttons settings they can 
choose if your or the default excise is visible or hidden behind the more 
drop down.
This way you will not be modifying any core code.

I have otherwise not looked at this thread in more detail, I hope to later.

Tones


On Wednesday, 14 July 2021 at 23:37:43 UTC+10 David Gifford wrote:

> So that's why I couldn't post a reply, you had just deleted your post! 
> Here is what I was replying: 
>
> Hi springer,
>
> 1. I don't know if I updated the teaser version, but in the main file I am 
> tinkering with, selecting text and clicking the ted button does wrap the 
> text.
>
> 2. I literally just posted a question about having ted (which I am 
> planning to call Subsume) be another option the excise button dropdown. 
> Then saw your post.
>
> 3. I agree that is cleaner in EDIT to have it be double angle brackets. 
> But that forces double spacing, and I think it is much cleaner and flexible 
> in VIEW mode to allow users to have them singlespaced. And I doubt Jeremy 
> would allow tweaking to macros to eliminate the  that is the culprit 
> here. It would not be backwards compatible and could cause all kinds of 
> problems. I could have a second button to render it as double angle 
> brackets , I suppose. You CAN currently invoke it with  double angle 
> brackets by typing it.
>
> Dave
>
> On Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 8:29:35 AM UTC-5 springer wrote:
>
>> David,
>>
>> I'm so sorry to have just replied on your OTHER thread, requesting this 
>> very development, before reading this one! I'll go delete that, and put the 
>> guts of that message below...
>>
>> I'm thinking of a variant on "excise selected text into a new tiddler" 
>> that could take selected text, port it to a new tiddler (prompting for 
>> title, or defaulting to first line), and leave a corresponding details 
>> macro neatly in place of where the excised text is? This would be 
>> tremendously helpful in editing "overgrown" tiddlers (or paragraph 
>> sequences pasted in from elsewhere) and bringing a project closer to the 
>> ideal of tiddlers-as-smallest-useful-bits.
>>
>> For what it's worth, I'm with Saq in hoping to invoke it with <> "Component Idea">> -- much better for readability, sharing with newbies, 
>> etc., and would hope for the editor button to work that way as well.
>>
>> I wish I had time to tinker with these things myself so that I could 
>> offer tribute in the form of useful work, rather than chiming in as a 
>> backseat driver!
>>
>> -Springer
>>
>> On Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 9:19:47 AM UTC-4 David Gifford wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi everyone
>>>
>>> Yesterday I teased a modest macro that has the capability of turning 
>>> TiddlyWiki into an outliner. 
>>> https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/gCp5ONBxFXg (first half)
>>>
>>> I am thinking about packaging it as a plugin called Subsume, but one 
>>> item seems to call for attention.
>>>
>>> If I could add this macro as a new option for the excise dropdown, not 
>>> as a macro but as a macrocall, that would allow users to excise text and 
>>> turn it into a link/slider in the present tiddler instead of transcluding 
>>> it or linking it.
>>>
>>> But two things hold me back:
>>> 1. After playing with the excise dropdown tiddler for a while I am still 
>>> not sure how it works or how to add another dropdown option to it.
>>> 2. Even if I knew how to do that, this would mean that my plugin would 
>>> need to change some core tiddlers. And this would make it un-future-proof.
>>>
>>> What chance is there of eventually having the excise dropdown be as easy 
>>> to add options to via tags, as, say, the pagecontrol buttons and sidebar 
>>> tabs? Maybe my macrocall is not the only way people might want to customize 
>>> excising.
>>>
>>> And, does anyone know how to tweak the excise set of tiddlers as it 
>>> stands so that I could insert a named macrocall of the tiddler instead of a 
>>> transclusion, macro or link?
>>>
>>> (In case any of you are wondering, I need macrocall instead of a normal 
>>> macro to avoid the  that causes extra spacing above and below macros)
>>>
>>> Blessings, Dave
>>>
>>

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[tw5] Re: Thinking through a plugin and the excise dropdown

2021-07-14 Thread David Gifford
So that's why I couldn't post a reply, you had just deleted your post! Here 
is what I was replying: 

Hi springer,

1. I don't know if I updated the teaser version, but in the main file I am 
tinkering with, selecting text and clicking the ted button does wrap the 
text.

2. I literally just posted a question about having ted (which I am planning 
to call Subsume) be another option the excise button dropdown. Then saw 
your post.

3. I agree that is cleaner in EDIT to have it be double angle brackets. But 
that forces double spacing, and I think it is much cleaner and flexible in 
VIEW mode to allow users to have them singlespaced. And I doubt Jeremy 
would allow tweaking to macros to eliminate the  that is the culprit 
here. It would not be backwards compatible and could cause all kinds of 
problems. I could have a second button to render it as double angle 
brackets , I suppose. You CAN currently invoke it with  double angle 
brackets by typing it.

Dave

On Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 8:29:35 AM UTC-5 springer wrote:

> David,
>
> I'm so sorry to have just replied on your OTHER thread, requesting this 
> very development, before reading this one! I'll go delete that, and put the 
> guts of that message below...
>
> I'm thinking of a variant on "excise selected text into a new tiddler" 
> that could take selected text, port it to a new tiddler (prompting for 
> title, or defaulting to first line), and leave a corresponding details 
> macro neatly in place of where the excised text is? This would be 
> tremendously helpful in editing "overgrown" tiddlers (or paragraph 
> sequences pasted in from elsewhere) and bringing a project closer to the 
> ideal of tiddlers-as-smallest-useful-bits.
>
> For what it's worth, I'm with Saq in hoping to invoke it with < "Component Idea">> -- much better for readability, sharing with newbies, 
> etc., and would hope for the editor button to work that way as well.
>
> I wish I had time to tinker with these things myself so that I could offer 
> tribute in the form of useful work, rather than chiming in as a backseat 
> driver!
>
> -Springer
>
> On Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 9:19:47 AM UTC-4 David Gifford wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> Yesterday I teased a modest macro that has the capability of turning 
>> TiddlyWiki into an outliner. 
>> https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/gCp5ONBxFXg (first half)
>>
>> I am thinking about packaging it as a plugin called Subsume, but one item 
>> seems to call for attention.
>>
>> If I could add this macro as a new option for the excise dropdown, not as 
>> a macro but as a macrocall, that would allow users to excise text and turn 
>> it into a link/slider in the present tiddler instead of transcluding it or 
>> linking it.
>>
>> But two things hold me back:
>> 1. After playing with the excise dropdown tiddler for a while I am still 
>> not sure how it works or how to add another dropdown option to it.
>> 2. Even if I knew how to do that, this would mean that my plugin would 
>> need to change some core tiddlers. And this would make it un-future-proof.
>>
>> What chance is there of eventually having the excise dropdown be as easy 
>> to add options to via tags, as, say, the pagecontrol buttons and sidebar 
>> tabs? Maybe my macrocall is not the only way people might want to customize 
>> excising.
>>
>> And, does anyone know how to tweak the excise set of tiddlers as it 
>> stands so that I could insert a named macrocall of the tiddler instead of a 
>> transclusion, macro or link?
>>
>> (In case any of you are wondering, I need macrocall instead of a normal 
>> macro to avoid the  that causes extra spacing above and below macros)
>>
>> Blessings, Dave
>>
>

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[tw5] Re: Thinking through a plugin and the excise dropdown

2021-07-14 Thread springer
David,

I'm so sorry to have just replied on your OTHER thread, requesting this 
very development, before reading this one! I'll go delete that, and put the 
guts of that message below...

I'm thinking of a variant on "excise selected text into a new tiddler" that 
could take selected text, port it to a new tiddler (prompting for title, or 
defaulting to first line), and leave a corresponding details macro neatly 
in place of where the excised text is? This would be tremendously helpful 
in editing "overgrown" tiddlers (or paragraph sequences pasted in from 
elsewhere) and bringing a project closer to the ideal of 
tiddlers-as-smallest-useful-bits.

For what it's worth, I'm with Saq in hoping to invoke it with <> -- much better for readability, sharing with newbies, 
etc., and would hope for the editor button to work that way as well.

I wish I had time to tinker with these things myself so that I could offer 
tribute in the form of useful work, rather than chiming in as a backseat 
driver!

-Springer

On Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 9:19:47 AM UTC-4 David Gifford wrote:

>
> Hi everyone
>
> Yesterday I teased a modest macro that has the capability of turning 
> TiddlyWiki into an outliner. 
> https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/gCp5ONBxFXg (first half)
>
> I am thinking about packaging it as a plugin called Subsume, but one item 
> seems to call for attention.
>
> If I could add this macro as a new option for the excise dropdown, not as 
> a macro but as a macrocall, that would allow users to excise text and turn 
> it into a link/slider in the present tiddler instead of transcluding it or 
> linking it.
>
> But two things hold me back:
> 1. After playing with the excise dropdown tiddler for a while I am still 
> not sure how it works or how to add another dropdown option to it.
> 2. Even if I knew how to do that, this would mean that my plugin would 
> need to change some core tiddlers. And this would make it un-future-proof.
>
> What chance is there of eventually having the excise dropdown be as easy 
> to add options to via tags, as, say, the pagecontrol buttons and sidebar 
> tabs? Maybe my macrocall is not the only way people might want to customize 
> excising.
>
> And, does anyone know how to tweak the excise set of tiddlers as it stands 
> so that I could insert a named macrocall of the tiddler instead of a 
> transclusion, macro or link?
>
> (In case any of you are wondering, I need macrocall instead of a normal 
> macro to avoid the  that causes extra spacing above and below macros)
>
> Blessings, Dave
>

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[tw5] Re: Thinking through a plugin and the excise dropdown

2021-07-14 Thread David Gifford
haha I meant the first half of the Youtube video linked to in that post...

On Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 8:19:47 AM UTC-5 David Gifford wrote:

>
> Hi everyone
>
> Yesterday I teased a modest macro that has the capability of turning 
> TiddlyWiki into an outliner. 
> https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/gCp5ONBxFXg (first half)
>
> I am thinking about packaging it as a plugin called Subsume, but one item 
> seems to call for attention.
>
> If I could add this macro as a new option for the excise dropdown, not as 
> a macro but as a macrocall, that would allow users to excise text and turn 
> it into a link/slider in the present tiddler instead of transcluding it or 
> linking it.
>
> But two things hold me back:
> 1. After playing with the excise dropdown tiddler for a while I am still 
> not sure how it works or how to add another dropdown option to it.
> 2. Even if I knew how to do that, this would mean that my plugin would 
> need to change some core tiddlers. And this would make it un-future-proof.
>
> What chance is there of eventually having the excise dropdown be as easy 
> to add options to via tags, as, say, the pagecontrol buttons and sidebar 
> tabs? Maybe my macrocall is not the only way people might want to customize 
> excising.
>
> And, does anyone know how to tweak the excise set of tiddlers as it stands 
> so that I could insert a named macrocall of the tiddler instead of a 
> transclusion, macro or link?
>
> (In case any of you are wondering, I need macrocall instead of a normal 
> macro to avoid the  that causes extra spacing above and below macros)
>
> Blessings, Dave
>

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