Re: [tw5] Fields should have definitions

2020-01-06 Thread Thomas Elmiger
Hi bimlas, Regarding your example: > For example, if I want to use a custom macro instead of "<>", which > can open all tiddlers, I simply replace the template in the "tags" field > definition with a macro I want. > I once made a plugin to get my own template working with tags ... took me 8

Re: [tw5] Fields should have definitions

2020-01-06 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Hi Bimlas > I think that besides being able to read these settings, they should be > adjustable. For example, if I want to use a custom macro instead of > "<>", which can open all tiddlers, I simply replace the template in the > "tags" field definition with a macro I want. It sounds like

Re: [tw5] Fields should have definitions

2020-01-05 Thread TonyM
> > > I think that besides being able to read these settings, they should be > adjustable. For example, if I want to use a custom macro instead of > "<>", which can open all tiddlers, I simply replace the template in > the "tags" field definition with a macro I want. > Bimlas, Actually

Re: [tw5] Fields should have definitions

2020-01-05 Thread bimlas
Jeremy, We could perhaps ameliorate the problem by exposing that JS configuration > information for wikitext to access. > I think that besides being able to read these settings, they should be adjustable. For example, if I want to use a custom macro instead of "<>", which can open all

Re: [tw5] Fields should have definitions

2020-01-05 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Hi Bimlas As pmario points out, the special behaviour of the fields modified, created, tags, list and color is defined within the JavaScript core of TW5, and isn’t directly accessible from wikitext. It was clear some time ago that this approach isn’t optimal, but by then it was too late to

[tw5] Fields should have definitions

2020-01-04 Thread bimlas
I'm developing a plugin that lists the values of the fields. As I was writing it, I had to realize that fields can be very useful, but I feel like they're hanging in the air because there is no definition for them (so I implemented most of the following ideas in the plugin). For example, from