As we know, it is currently problematic to add comments in wikitext code. This causes a lot of confusion even when I review my own code from a mere few days earlier - not to mention when reading someone elses code.
My current fiddling with EditorMagic <http://editormagic.tiddlyspot.com/> sparked an idea: Would it be possible with code comments to be, not *in* the code, but as "popups" *that are not processed when the wikitext is processed*? This illustrates the idea (the code snip is just arbitrary, never mind what it says, only look at the red things and the popups): [image: code_comments.png] Like in EditorMagic, the popups are not part of the current editor content. When coding in wikitext, adding a generic <!> or <1>, <2>,... or some other marker, triggers a little popup editor where comments can be added. When the actual code is processed, such markers are jumped over. Actually, this approach even has several... *...advantages over in-line comments:* - The comments are kept separated - we could make a core annotations plugin!!! This should be super valuable for the whole TW project. - It retains the compactness of the code. - The popups could themselves show wikitext and be configurable, like the ambition for EditorMagic, to e.g include reference links or iframes. - It would be simple to toggle the display of comments. P.S As I, so far, somewhat clumsily illustrate in EditorMagic, the possibility to trigger popups in the editor that show arbitrary tiddler content is really a game changer for using the editor. I wish some of the big boys could make a proper js solution for this. <:-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/de931512-1728-44c8-b50f-f50eff75cd2b%40googlegroups.com.
