CJ Thank you! This is a great start and will help me out a lot!
On Friday, April 30, 2021 at 11:43:22 PM UTC-5 cj.v...@gmail.com wrote: > Okay, a semi-matching no-fuss-no-muss solution? Alternative tiddler > editor: text à la JSON > <https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/WFzr0BLIz5k> > On Friday, April 30, 2021 at 4:23:41 PM UTC-3 dieg...@gmail.com wrote: > >> >> Hello all, >> >> I hate to beat a dead horse >> <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/3308> but I still think >> an "advanced edit mode" would be very useful. I'm trying to develop a proof >> of concept, but I am having some trouble. I've broken it down into the >> following pieces/questions notes. >> >> This is just to start the conversation again and see if anyone can help >> me hobble along towards a proof of concept. >> >> - An edit text widget whose contents will show the ".tid" version of >> a tiddler >> - Important tiddlers for this part: >> $:/core/templates/exporters/TidFile which uses the >> *$:/core/templates/tid-tiddler* template. >> - You can see it in action and get the "tid" version of any >> tiddler by doing: {{ || $:/core/templates/tid-tiddler }} >> - Question: This all comes out on "one line". What happens to >> the "new lines"? >> - Question: How can I populate the contents of an edit-text widget >> to be the .tid version? >> - It seems it can only edit a field of a tiddler, so Id have to >> create a new field which is the tid version of a tiddler of >> interest? >> - Where does the edit-text widget live? Certainly not in the >> tiddler of interest itself. >> - Assuming the above works, when saving, the content of the >> widget needs to be "imported"/parsed back to overwrite all fields of the >> tiddelr of interest. >> - Question: Can/should I use the import mechanism here? >> >> *Note*: This mode would be *very very* useful in quickly defining >> fields, but it would be *supercharged* when paired with *multi-line >> fields* (which is currently not supported - I wish!!) >> >> Thanks, >> Diego >> >> >> >> >> -- 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/c4cc8dfb-b0e5-416f-b3e3-27c0bf11d73bn%40googlegroups.com.
