Re: [tw5] Re: What does "wikify" mean?

Hi Matt, Tony, Here is my take: *wikifying means reusing the result of the wikification in your code instead of displaying it*. Indeed, wikification typically produces a complex HTML string, so if you rather need a flat text string, the safest route is to ask <$wikify> to render a sequence of

[tw5] Re: What does "wikify" mean?

Mario How do I get some wiki text evaluated and stored as plain text result I can use in subsequent steps? I don't want it to evaluate differently later, I want to store it as text in a variable. now I can use match !match, split join and more how can I wikify and use a text result in the

[tw5] Re: What does "wikify" mean?

Thanks for input guys. My question was solely about a word definition for what "to wikify" means. Only now did I realize I can google it (ingenious!) and I find: To adapt to the standards and facilities of an existing wiki >

[tw5] Re: What does "wikify" mean?

On Saturday, February 1, 2020 at 3:53:53 PM UTC+1, TonyM wrote: ... > However it does not always seem to work how I would like it to. Without > retesting if for example I vwikified [[name|tiddlername]] I would hope the > named variable would contain "name" but it will from memory still

[tw5] Re: What does "wikify" mean?

Hi Mat, The way how wikify is used most of the time is with output=text, which is default, because it is mainly used to concatenate 2 elements in 1 text output. see: https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#WikifyWidget The best way to see, what wikify can do, is open TW prerelease. Edit a