On Sunday, June 7, 2020 at 5:48:31 AM UTC-7, Jake wrote:
>
> but what if I want a "universal" macro with usage like:
>
<<gofolder "text to show" "Folder" "MySubfolder/myfile.txt">>
>
On Sunday, June 7, 2020 at 9:25:21 AM UTC-7, Eric Shulman wrote:
> ...you could just write:
> \define gofolder(text,file) [ext[$text$|file:///$file$]]
> which you would call like this:
> <<gofolder "text to show" "Folder/MySubfolder/myfile.txt">>
> See. Nice and simple!
>
Addendum:
There *is* a drawback to the "universal" macro, in that every usage would
then contain a literal instance of the folder name.
If you wanted to move that folder later on, you would have to change each
place you called the macro!
With the "folder name stored in a separate tiddler" method, you only have
to change the folder value once, in the separate tiddler,
and all instances of the macro usage would stay the same, but use the newly
changed folder value.
To keep "the best of both worlds", you could do something like this:
\define gofolder(text,foldertid,file) <$vars folder={{$foldertid$}}><<link2file
"$text$" "$file$">></$vars>
\define link2file(text,file) [ext[$text$|file:///$(folder)$/$file$]]
with tiddlers [[MyDocs Path]], [[MyImages Path]], [[MyData Path]],
[[Downloads Path]] defining path to the folders.
and then call it like this:
<<gofolder "text to show" "MyDocs Path" "agreement/doc1.doc">>
<<gofolder "text to show" "MyImages Path" "Scenery/lake.img">>
<<gofolder "text to show" "MyData Path" "Data/something.dat">>
<<gofolder "text to show" "Downloads Path" "Downloads/somefile.ext">>
enjoy,
-e
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