@Mark S Thanks but your comment is off track from the original request.
My point in the original post is that if Charlie's solution can grab the text of Tiddler A, and add it to a new tiddler button as the content of a field, then there must be a way to grab the same text from Tiddler A and use it in a similar way in an editortoolbutton in Tiddler B. But in a way that if Tiddler A is changed, what is pasted in Tiddler B will not change. On Monday, May 3, 2021 at 8:59:48 AM UTC-5 Mark S. wrote: > 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/2e602497-6c01-44fb-b734-3c61fbc63cd4n%40googlegroups.com.
