[tw] Re: Looking for a nice compact newbie tutorial on Youtube

2015-09-11 Thread Ray Vermey
Hi! When you found something let us know please ;) I am looking for the same thing ;-) Ray Op donderdag 10 september 2015 20:42:05 UTC+2 schreef Francis Meetze: > > I was looking for a nice solution to take my notes off the cloud. I was > first impressed on how easy it is to store my notes

[tw] Re: macrocall to transclude... Why no worky?

2015-09-11 Thread Evolena
I haven't understood it at the first glance. And because of the final smiley I was wondering if you were kidding (sharing a funny mistakes that you had already resolved) or if it was serious. If it often happens to you, you can define that macro: \define transclude(tiddler) <$transclude

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5]How to use canonical uri field to point to local files

2015-09-11 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Hi Mark I am using FIREFOX 33 with WINDOWS 7 and TW 5.1.8 > Ah, that's the problem - the external text feature is new in 5.1.10. You can try it out at the usual prerelease address. Best wishes Jeremy. > > Thanks! > Mark > > > On Friday, September 11, 2015 at 8:03:09 AM UTC-7, Jeremy Ruston

Re: [tw] Re: Looking for a nice compact newbie tutorial on Youtube

2015-09-11 Thread Felix Küppers
Hi Francis, great that you want to create a tutorial. IMO TiddlyWiki desperately needs more tutorial videos! Just wanted to say, for the TiddlyMap installation I did a video here https://youtu.be/dmeIxuN0L5w. It shows how to install TiddlyWiki and add TiddlyMap. It also talks a bit about

Re: [tw] Re: TWC to TW5 help

2015-09-11 Thread Bob Flandard
Hello Evan, That's very helpful, I appreciate your efforts. Thanks, Bob -- 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.

Re: [tw] Linking to a file (newbie)

2015-09-11 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Hi Scott The problem here is that TiddlyWiki does not include a static file server. That means there's no out-of-the-box way of serving your "test.txt" file so that it can be retrieved by the browser. The solution for the moment is to run TiddlyWiki behind a full-featured web server like Apache

[tw] Re: [TW5] Datepicker ?

2015-09-11 Thread George ZP
Google Calendar default embed link works a treat, but the advanced one (with colour options etc) does not render. This is especially annoying, because the only way to display multiple calendars in the same calendar page (which I want to) is to use the advanced link. On Thursday, September 10,

Re: [tw] Re: Learning by looking and stealing ;-)

2015-09-11 Thread Birthe C
Hi Ray, Are you referring to http://wills.tiddlyspot.com? I loved that one when Matabele created it. So much so that I downloaded a copy and translated it into Danish. I learned a lot from that, having to look into each and every tiddler and getting it right. Immediate feedback, when I got it

[tw] Re: macrocall to transclude... Why no worky?

2015-09-11 Thread PMario
On Friday, September 11, 2015 at 8:25:16 AM UTC+2, Evolena wrote: > > I haven't understood it at the first glance. And because of the final > smiley I was wondering if you were kidding (sharing a funny mistakes that > you had already resolved) or if it was serious. > > If it often happens to

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5]How to use canonical uri field to point to local files

2015-09-11 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Hi Mark On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 5:04 PM, 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki < tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Is _canonical_uri supposed to work with text files? I can't get it to show > a simple text file with either an absolute address (provided by tiddlysnip) > nor a relative address. But it does

Re: [tw] Re: TWC to TW5 help

2015-09-11 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Hi Bob > That's disappointingly verbose. I was hoping for one line drop-in > replacement. Having to resort to HTML for something as simple as a table > makes me question what the advantage TW5 over TW2 for the occasional user > who doesn't want to fill their TW with metadata. > In TW5 you can

[tw] Re: Feature Request: Sidebar tab hiding as a built-in option

2015-09-11 Thread PMario
On Friday, September 11, 2015 at 4:17:05 AM UTC+2, Evan Balster wrote: > > I'm not sure if requiring a theme installed is sensible... > > I feel as if the closest UX analog is the "toolbars" setting. You don't > need a special-purpose theme to enable or disable the "clone" button on all >

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5]How to use canonical uri field to point to local files

2015-09-11 Thread Jeremy Ruston
I'm using Firefox 40.0.3, which I think is the latest version. Maybe try downloading the content of tw.com from github, and see if you can open "Alice in Wonderland" in /prereleases/index.html in Firefox: https://github.com/Jermolene/jermolene.github.io/archive/master.zip Best wishes Jeremy

[tw] Re: TWC to TW5 help

2015-09-11 Thread Bob Flandard
Thanks Evan, That's disappointingly verbose. I was hoping for one line drop-in replacement. Having to resort to HTML for something as simple as a table makes me question what the advantage TW5 over TW2 for the occasional user who doesn't want to fill their TW with metadata. Bob -- You

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5]How to use canonical uri field to point to local files

2015-09-11 Thread Danielo Rodríguez
Hello Jeremy, El viernes, 11 de septiembre de 2015, 11:30:24 (UTC+2), Jeremy Ruston escribió: > > > while Firefox is quite happy. > > The complexity of the implementation landscape is why I initially resisted > adding this feature. As I feared, it's proving hard for many users to get > it

Re: [tw] 5.1.7 -> 5.1.9 upgrade problem

2015-09-11 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Hi Diane I'm sorry you've run into problems. On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Diane wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade from 5.1.7 to 5.1.9. When I use the upgrade wizard > online, I'm unable to save the upgraded file. > What happens when you try to save? Are there any

Re: [tw] Re: Looking for a nice compact newbie tutorial on Youtube

2015-09-11 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Hi Francis I've just skipped through your video at hyperspeed, and it looks really terrific, well done. It looks like you've put a lot of work into it. I'll enjoy watching it properly later, Many thanks, Jeremy. On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Francis Meetze wrote: >

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5]How to use canonical uri field to point to local files

2015-09-11 Thread Danielo Rodríguez
El viernes, 11 de septiembre de 2015, 20:05:01 (UTC+2), Mark S. escribió: > > Hello Jeremy, > > Paths tried (all from LOCAL - not http://) directory: > > temp.txt (same dir as TW) > ./temp.txt (same dir as TW) > file:///g:/data/TW2014/temp.txt (same dir as TW) >

Re: [tw] Re: Looking for a nice compact newbie tutorial on Youtube

2015-09-11 Thread Felix Küppers
Hi Francis, That video is highly informative and covers many aspects of TiddlyWiki! Very nice! As for TiddlyMap, I am sorry you ran into the "Permission denied to access property Type bug" :( It only happens on Firefox and it only happens when you open the url in a new tab for the first time

Re: [tw] [TW5] highlight.js

2015-09-11 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Hi Bob I've installed the highlight.js syntax highlighting plugin. How do I go > about adding a custom "brush" ? (by brush I mean a language to supported by > default). > I'm afraid custom brushes aren't currently supported. For 5.1.10, I've just upgraded the plugin to the latest v8.8.0 of

[tw] Re: Feature Request: Sidebar tab hiding as a built-in option

2015-09-11 Thread Eric Shulman
On Friday, September 11, 2015 at 1:45:12 PM UTC-7, Graeme Henson wrote: > > Jumping off of this recent post since it's semi-related, How would you go > about hiding the entire Sidebar itself by default? I've been googling > around trying to find some method for it using plug-ins and such, but I

Re: [tw] Re: Looking for a nice compact newbie tutorial on Youtube

2015-09-11 Thread Francis Meetze
Thanks for the input. I put up a temporary video of what I was shooting for. It's pretty rough and unscripted, but it covers all the basic items I thought I'd like to know myself before starting with TiddlyWiki. https://www.youtube.com/embed/a7-pcOSfDFM; frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>

Re: [tw] [TW5] highlight.js

2015-09-11 Thread Bob Flandard
Hello Jeremy, Thank you for your investigations and the plugin upgrade. All the best, Bob -- 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

Re: [tw] Re: Feature Request: Sidebar tab hiding as a built-in option

2015-09-11 Thread PMario
On Friday, September 11, 2015 at 5:28:32 PM UTC+2, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > Mario expresses several concerns: > > > At the moment TW is configured to death already. > > My goal is to make TiddlyWiki flexible and useful for people who aren't > yet ready to delve into wikitext and deep

[tw] Re: Feature Request: Sidebar tab hiding as a built-in option

2015-09-11 Thread Graeme Henson
Jumping off of this recent post since it's semi-related, How would you go about hiding the entire Sidebar itself by default? I've been googling around trying to find some method for it using plug-ins and such, but I can't tell if it's older code that doesn't apply or if I'm entering in the

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5]How to use canonical uri field to point to local files

2015-09-11 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Hi Danielo You're right! using the text/html type works flawesly!! > text/html has been implemented for quite a long time, but it's implemented differently: as an iframe. That means that the content appears visually part of the wiki, but isn't properly integrated with it. > > Jeremy, in 5.1.10

Re: [tw] Re: Looking for a nice compact newbie tutorial on Youtube

2015-09-11 Thread Birthe C
Hi Francis, I love that you are not talking too fast. Your voice is very good for stuff like this making it easy for us non-english speakers to understand. Thank you. Birthe Den fredag den 11. september 2015 kl. 20.58.55 UTC+2 skrev Francis Meetze: > > Thanks for the input. I put up a

[tw] Re: Learning by looking and stealing ;-)

2015-09-11 Thread Ray Vermey
Thanks, i look at it but dont understand how to use it, although i installed the plugin btw... Read the readme, looked at the examples... sorry for being dense... Ray Op vrijdag 11 september 2015 12:30:43 UTC+2 schreef Danielo Rodríguez: > > Your request about "grouping" all the ideas together

[tw] Re: Looking for a nice compact newbie tutorial on Youtube

2015-09-11 Thread Bob Flandard
Me too! Thanks, Bob -- 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

[tw] Re: Feature Request: Sidebar tab hiding as a built-in option

2015-09-11 Thread Danielo Rodríguez
Interesting ideas Mat. I have no idea what to answer, but a totally modular tiddlywiky is something I dream about -- 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

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5]How to use canonical uri field to point to local files

2015-09-11 Thread 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki
Hello Jeremy, Paths tried (all from LOCAL - not http://) directory: temp.txt (same dir as TW) ./temp.txt (same dir as TW) file:///g:/data/TW2014/temp.txt (same dir as TW) ../Business/papers/2015/test.txt (relative path to current TW) file:///g:/data/Business/papers/2015/test.txt

[tw] Re: Learning by looking and stealing ;-)

2015-09-11 Thread Danielo Rodríguez
Your request about "grouping" all the ideas together in a single tiddler by enclosing them between certain tags can be accomplished by the use of the match filter plugin, created by Eucaly http://eucaly-tw5.tiddlyspot.com/#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Feucaly%2Fmatchfilter%2Fhistory On that tiddler you

[tw] Re: Feature Request: Sidebar tab hiding as a built-in option

2015-09-11 Thread Mat
PMario wrote: > > > I know but if you have a look at empty.html. It has already 1218 shadow > tiddlers. Many of them come for UI configuration. We should try to remove > them and not make them more. The whole confi stuff makes TW terribly slow. > @anyone who knows or has thoughts about it;

Re: [tw] Some Tiddlers don't get a 'created' field

2015-09-11 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Hi Richard Thanks for the report. I've fixed it for 5.1.10, along with a few other occurrences of the same issue: https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/eb9fb6635db7b7b1a50f8acd2712ddfdda9fc340 Many thanks Jeremy. On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 1:40 AM, RichardWilliamSmith <

[tw] Re: macrocall to transclude... Why no worky?

2015-09-11 Thread Mat
Thank you both. I'll probably not make a macro because I don't want to encourage myself to make the a similar mistake for other widgets. But I sincerely appreciate your suggestions. On Friday, September 11, 2015 at 8:25:16 AM UTC+2, Evolena wrote: > > because of the final smiley I was wondering

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5]How to use canonical uri field to point to local files

2015-09-11 Thread 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki
Hi Jeremy, In case it wasn't clear, I was talking about reading local text files. I wouldn't think there would have to be any security restrictions against reading local files -- I can use the browser to browse to and read local text files. Firefox 33, TW 5.1.8, Win 7 Thanks! Mark On

Re: [tw] Re: Learning by looking and stealing ;-)

2015-09-11 Thread UBi
Am Freitag, 11. September 2015 01:36:07 UTC+2 schrieb Ray Vermey: > > For instance i see pages where all the tags are together placed in nice > coloured butons, and i ask myself: > how is that done? (do you know how??) > In TWC, there was a Tag Cloud Plugin, showing all tags in one place, their

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5]How to use canonical uri field to point to local files

2015-09-11 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Hi Mark In case it wasn't clear, I was talking about reading local text files. I > wouldn't think there would have to be any security restrictions against > reading local files -- I can use the browser to browse to and read local > text files. > You'd be surprised. As I said in my message above,

[tw] Re: Feature Request: Sidebar tab hiding as a built-in option

2015-09-11 Thread PMario
On Friday, September 11, 2015 at 3:09:56 PM UTC+2, Mat wrote: > > PMario wrote: >> >> >> I know but if you have a look at empty.html. It has already 1218 shadow >> tiddlers. Many of them come for UI configuration. We should try to remove >> them and not make them more. The whole confi stuff

Re: [tw] Re: TWC to TW5 help

2015-09-11 Thread Bob Flandard
Hello Jeremy, Sorry if my post was a bit critical. TW is great, but sometimes a bit opaque for the uninitiated user who just dips in occasionally. I'll have a look at the global macros. All the best, Bob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [tw] Re: Feature Request: Sidebar tab hiding as a built-in option

2015-09-11 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Great thread. There's a bunch of points I'd like to respond to: Firstly, to respond to Evan's original request, I also think that the sidebar tabs should be selectable just like the toolbar icons. Mario expresses several concerns: > At the moment TW is configured to death already. My goal is

Re: [tw] Re: Feature Request: Sidebar tab hiding as a built-in option

2015-09-11 Thread Evan Balster
Thanks Jeremy! On Friday, 11 September 2015 10:28:32 UTC-5, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > Great thread. There's a bunch of points I'd like to respond to: > > Firstly, to respond to Evan's original request, I also think that the > sidebar tabs should be selectable just like the toolbar icons. > >

Re: [tw] Re: Search of accented words

2015-09-11 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Hi Philippe Apologies for the delayed response Users of my TW5 come up with the fact that the search of non accented words >> are not returning results. >> > Thanks for raising this, I'm afraid I hadn't previously thought it through, but of course it would be a problem. As Mark suggests, one

Re: [tw] Re: TWC to TW5 help

2015-09-11 Thread Evan Balster
In a tiddler tagged with *$:/tags/Macro* -- \define property_table(PROP) <$list filter="[tag[apdl]tag[help]]+[sort[title]]"> {{!!title}} {{$$PROP$$}} \end ...And elsewhere in your wiki: <> This might seem more complicated by comparison to the old way, but it ends up being *a lot* more

[tw] Re: Looking for a nice compact newbie tutorial on Youtube

2015-09-11 Thread Francis Meetze
Yeah, it took me all day to put together some very basic concepts I needed that I could have probably learned in about 10 minutes watching a tutorial. I'm going to put one together a bit later today that covers: installation, Mozilla plugin, using TiddlyDesktop for easy backups, Creating