Hey PMario thank you for your time writing all this to me
what I want to do, in simpler form, is replace all occurrences of a word (say Word1 ) with [[Word1]] so, in other terms, converting a "freelink" to a "backlink" I could do it in any language in 3 minutes top can't understand why it is so complicated in TW :S On Tuesday, May 12, 2020 at 4:53:50 PM UTC+3, PMario wrote: > > Hi Tony, > > TW core has a so-called "hook" mechanism, that could be used here. It is > described in the TW dev edition, with a minimal example, that just shows > the basic mechanism. > > See the th-saving-tiddler hook > <https://tiddlywiki.com/dev/#HookMechanism:HookMechanism%20%5B%5BHook%3A%20th-saving-tiddler%5D%5D> > > info. ... You could do a *javascript *regexp *search and replace* in the > hook. > > BUT as a user of such an editor, I personally would consider a behaviour > like this as a very offensive action. ... If you just want to learn about > the inner workings of TW core, I think it's a good example, with a little > bit of risk involved, to keep it interesting. > > I did use the th-importing-tiddler hook with my bundler plugin, to log > imported tiddlers into a log tiddler. ... This can be a "real world" > example how you can implement it as a plugin. > > To do hooks right, you also need to understand when they are executed, so > you'll also need to have a closer look at TW core code. > > th-saving-tiddler is executed here: > https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/blob/d1441d29fde17fd382658d7b541cab513d86a936/core/modules/widgets/navigator.js#L323 > > th-importing-tiddler is executed here: > https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/blob/d1441d29fde17fd382658d7b541cab513d86a936/core/modules/widgets/navigator.js#L559 > > *That's 1 way to do it. * > > have fun! > mario > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/84b7c65b-a6e1-4c76-8ad4-7d8ac54aee73%40googlegroups.com.
