What you're not showing, which I think must be the missing step, is how you call "dostuff". If you call it like
<<dostuff "hammer">> it should use "hammer", just like "thing" did. So not sure what the problem is, unless you're calling dostuff in relation to "thing", somehow. On Thursday, June 25, 2020 at 12:46:46 PM UTC-7, TiddlyTweeter wrote: > > I try to be brief ... > > \define thing(thingie:"wotnot") > > User enters ... > > <<thing "hammer">> > > I have a second macro ... > > \define dostuff(thingie:"wotnot") > > How do I get "dostuff" to know the parameter *value* is now "*hammer*", > not "wotnot"? > > This is probably awfully unclear! > > Trying to grasp basics. > TT > -- 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/191c5863-027b-4e54-adc2-33ada1bded79o%40googlegroups.com.