As soon as you edit Tiddler B you lose the selection of Tiddler A. A tool that may help with comparing or copying from a second tiddler:
https://tid.li/tw5/plugins-2019.html#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Ftelmiger%2FClipboard:%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Ftelmiger%2FClipboard On Monday, May 3, 2021 at 6:48:38 AM UTC-7 David Gifford wrote: > see in bold below > > On Monday, May 3, 2021 at 8:26:42 AM UTC-5 PMario wrote: > >> On Monday, May 3, 2021 at 3:09:32 PM UTC+2 David Gifford wrote: >> ... >> >>> Yes, for #3, maybe the reference to Charlie's snippet was confusing. >>> Basically the question is: If the current text of [[Tiddler A]] is "I am so >>> happy", I want an editortoolbar button that grabs "I am so happy" from the >>> text field of [[Tiddler A]] and pastes it into the text of the tiddler I am >>> editing. >>> >> >> I'm confused. ... >> >> - If you edit "Tiddler A" and select "I am so happy", you can click a >> toolbar button. That's OK. >> - The selection will be preserved. >> - But where is the other tiddler that you want to edit at the same time? >> - As soon as you click a different tiddler, the selection goes away. >> >> You are editing "Tiddler A". The editor has to have the "focus". Which >> means the cursor needs to be in Tiddler A ... >> > > *No, I am editing another tiddler, and I want to use the editortoolbar to > paste a snippet that contains the current text of Tiddler A * > >> >> Who do you want to define Tiddler B ... The one that should receive the >> new text. >> >> -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/09b20c5e-7612-466a-b1cd-98010256da50n%40googlegroups.com.
