Ah, then. I have a solution (I think) festering, percolating possibly
burning if you are smelling any burnt toast ...
On Monday, May 3, 2021 at 11:54:03 AM UTC-3 David Gifford wrote:
> Hi Charlie,
>
> Yes, you have described well what I am trying to do.
>
> No, I don't need an "Internet archive" style list of what the content used
> to be. The button will stamp a reference to the chapter I am currently
> reading (eg, [[Guns, Germs and Steel (Diamond) ch 4]]) into a note tiddler,
> along with other text immediately preceding and following. When I start
> reading a new chapter I will update the "Current chapter" tiddler. So the
> content is not important enough to warrant a log of previous content.
>
> Blessings.
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 9:45 AM Charlie Veniot <cj.v...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> G'day David,
>>
>> RE: #3: I'm going to throw a curve-ball at you and hope I don't bean you
>> in the process ...
>>
>> By the time I hit the submit button, I'm thinking there will already be a
>> few replies.
>>
>> Please let me know if I've got this right: for any tiddler you might be
>> editing, you'd like a button that copies and pastes the actual content of
>> that moment of the tiddler "Current chapter" into the tiddler you are
>> editing. i.e. a historical snapshot of "Current chapter" at that very
>> moment in time. (adorning that content with prefix, suffix, and however
>> else, that's secondary problem/solution to this primary problem/solution
>> need.)
>>
>> When we first talked about this stuff, you wanted the content of "Current
>> chapter" in a field for new tiddlers. Do I understand correctly that you
>> now want it instead in the text body of the new tiddler, wherever your
>> cursor is sitting?
>>
>> Now the curve-ball. Would it be of any value to have dated/historical
>> snapshots of "Current chapter" as distinct tiddlers which can be
>> individually transcluded in any number of new tiddlers?
>>
>> That would only be of value if you would ever like to see all of the
>> "Current chapter" versions over a span of time and/or if any one version
>> would actually ever be embedded/included/transcluded in more than one
>> tiddler. Otherwise, better to have each snapshot existing where you need
>> it.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Monday, May 3, 2021 at 9:38:54 AM UTC-3 David Gifford wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi everyone
>>>
>>> Yesterday I worked on a project, and Saq, Soren, Charlie and Mohammad
>>> helped me. Thank you!
>>>
>>> Now I only have three remaining problems, and I was hoping you all might
>>> help me.
>>>
>>> 1. The comptext plugin does not autocomplete links in custom fields,
>>> only in the text field. Is there a way to configure it to autocomplete in a
>>> specific custom field? I only need it to autocomplete in one...
>>>
>>> 2. Adding a link to a missing tiddler in a custom field does not add the
>>> missing link to the missing tab. Is there a way to see all the missing
>>> links in custom field x from all tiddlers?
>>>
>>> 3. Yesterday Charlie showed me how to grab the text of a specific
>>> tiddler and insert it into the new tiddler button so it would get added to
>>> a custom field of the new tiddler. The key component was
>>> customfieldname={{{ [[Current chapter]get[text]] }}}. I tried to use that
>>> in an editortoolbar button with no success. How could I grab the text of
>>> [[Current chapter]] and have the prefix of the following snippet paste it
>>> into tiddlers? (as text, not as {{Current chapter}}, because I don't want
>>> what is pasted to change when I change the text of Current chapter later on)
>>>
>>> <$action-sendmessage
>>> $message="tm-edit-text-operation"
>>> $param="wrap-selection"
>>> prefix=""""""
>>> suffix=""""""
>>> />
>>>
>>> Thanks to any help on any of these. World domination is imminent.
>>> Blessings, Dave
>>>
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