Hey, I had a blast putting that together.  If you can tweak that thing to 
fit what you want to do, then I'll be in a celebratory mood !

On Monday, May 3, 2021 at 9:31:39 PM UTC-3 dieg...@gmail.com wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>

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