David, I'm so sorry to have just replied on your OTHER thread, requesting this very development, before reading this one! I'll go delete that, and put the guts of that message below...
I'm thinking of a variant on "excise selected text into a new tiddler" that could take selected text, port it to a new tiddler (prompting for title, or defaulting to first line), and leave a corresponding details macro neatly in place of where the excised text is? This would be tremendously helpful in editing "overgrown" tiddlers (or paragraph sequences pasted in from elsewhere) and bringing a project closer to the ideal of tiddlers-as-smallest-useful-bits. For what it's worth, I'm with Saq in hoping to invoke it with <<det "Component Idea">> -- much better for readability, sharing with newbies, etc., and would hope for the editor button to work that way as well. I wish I had time to tinker with these things myself so that I could offer tribute in the form of useful work, rather than chiming in as a backseat driver! -Springer On Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 9:19:47 AM UTC-4 David Gifford wrote: > > Hi everyone > > Yesterday I teased a modest macro that has the capability of turning > TiddlyWiki into an outliner. > https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/gCp5ONBxFXg (first half) > > I am thinking about packaging it as a plugin called Subsume, but one item > seems to call for attention. > > If I could add this macro as a new option for the excise dropdown, not as > a macro but as a macrocall, that would allow users to excise text and turn > it into a link/slider in the present tiddler instead of transcluding it or > linking it. > > But two things hold me back: > 1. After playing with the excise dropdown tiddler for a while I am still > not sure how it works or how to add another dropdown option to it. > 2. Even if I knew how to do that, this would mean that my plugin would > need to change some core tiddlers. And this would make it un-future-proof. > > What chance is there of eventually having the excise dropdown be as easy > to add options to via tags, as, say, the pagecontrol buttons and sidebar > tabs? Maybe my macrocall is not the only way people might want to customize > excising. > > And, does anyone know how to tweak the excise set of tiddlers as it stands > so that I could insert a named macrocall of the tiddler instead of a > transclusion, macro or link? > > (In case any of you are wondering, I need macrocall instead of a normal > macro to avoid the <p> that causes extra spacing above and below macros) > > Blessings, Dave > -- 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/6afc6d2c-c5d6-4bb1-a305-b8bd632ebd70n%40googlegroups.com.
