Hi *@Tobi*, On Friday, September 18, 2015 at 9:06:53 AM UTC+12, Tobias Beer wrote: > > What I was *not* suggesting was that it should be unsafe in any way to > remove any tiddlers prefixed $:/temp/ or $:/state/, which it should not, > unless someone is using these namespaces for the wrong purposes ...so, I > *am* doing that by default on tb5 <http://tobibeer.github.io/tb5/>. >
Ah, okay, thanks for explaining that. I really am new to all this. I haven't even got the foggiest idea of what normally would go into $:/temp/ or $:/state/ yet. I assume it's like the /tmp folder of my Linux OS, the contents of which are pretty safe to delete unless they are very recent, and they get purged automatically anyway on logging out of the session. Does $:/temp/ get purged automatically at any stage in TW? Ooh, *$:/templates* sounds like a nasty trap. Something I saw somewhere (I can't even recall who suggested it now) mentioned naming personal templates as $:/_Templates/template-name and that will put them all at the top of the list of system tiddlers. I see you're now using $:/.tb/templates/template-name which also appears to achieve the same thing, but in a more hierarchical format. Knowing tricks like that, again, is really helpful to me as a new user. I assume I will be also creating $:/_Macros/ and $:/_Styles etc similar to your system folders, once I get more proficient with TW. (*EDIT:* As I was typing this, *@Matabele* posted in the thread, mentioning $:/_Buttons/, so that will be another one to consider.) I might just have a go with both yours and *Matabele*'s suggestions in my *dev* implementation of TW, one at a time, just to learn more about how they work. It looks like your States And Temporary Tiddlers <https://tobibeer.github.io/tb5/#States%20And%20Temporary%20Tiddlers> tiddler answers my question above about where to put Matabele's solution. It'll be going into a new personal template like yours does, right? So I'll try each, one at a time. No doubt they both achieve the same result, just going about it different ways. A great learning experience for me, thanks both of you. BTW, if anyone's wondering, I've decided to standardise some of my own language as it refers to TW, for instance, I use *"personal"* and *"personalise"* normally, rather than *"custom"* or *"customise"*, which I reserve for hacks that actually make changes to the underlying system. If it just involves a shadow tiddler, or a user setting, then I am *personalising* my version of TW. If it is something that I might suggest as a commit back to the community code or documentation, then it's a *customisation*. I'm not suggesting that this language gets widely adopted, I'm just explaining that this is what I'm doing. -- 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 post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/edccf4f9-d57e-4aca-894f-32df8b254469%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
