Re: [tw] Re: TW5 tip: Use fields for brief summaries of tiddlers

2013-11-07 Thread David Gifford
I have no idea what you just said or what you are wondering. On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Tobias Beer beertob...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Dave, that's a very useful tip. Makes me wonder though how hard it would be to dynamically and automagically turn a field input into a textarea,

Re: [tw] Re: TW5 tip: Use fields for brief summaries of tiddlers

2013-11-07 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Makes me wonder though how hard it would be to dynamically and automagically turn a field input into a textarea, perhaps when one hits *ENTER*, i.e. set the number of displayed lines of such a textarea to the number of literal newline characters in it. Perhaps it could even always be a

Re: [tw] Re: TW5 tip: Use fields for brief summaries of tiddlers

2013-11-07 Thread Tobias Beer
In the refactored branch you'll be able to say $edit-text field=myfield tag=textarea/ to force a text area instead of an input type=text/. In TW5 input text areas always resize the fit their text. Does that answer your question? Not sure, I was thinking more in terms of using /

Re: [tw] Re: TW5 tip: Use fields for brief summaries of tiddlers

2013-11-07 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Not sure, I was thinking more in terms of using / extending the default mechanism for adding / editing / removing fields so as to (somewhat adaptively) allow for multiline content in a custom field. Right. There is already a mechanism for a tiddler field to specify the type attribute of