> Daniel Baird wrote: > > Don't do a "Save As", browsers don't save TiddlyWikis properly
> Thanks, Daniel. That's certainly an option, > but "saving as" is a lot more convenient. > I did it routinely in Windows. > It was my solution to keeping backups. > I found TW's built in way of doing it arcane and not > very helpful -- or maybe overly helpful. > I want to control when backups are made. TiddlyWiki might *seem* like a full-blown application, but please remember that, underneath it all, it's built from HTML, CSS and Javascript, supported by the brower's built-in functionality... and the browser isn't "Windows"... it's a just browser... with browser- centric, security-restricted file I/O functionality. *Not* using the browser's native "Save As" command isn't an *option*.... it's an unfortunately necessity... as Daniel very clearly stated: "browsers don't save TiddlyWikis properly". Wanting it to be different doesn't make it possible. Nonetheless, I tend to agree with you that the "save as" functionality can be very convenient when spawning new documents from existing ones, or creating manual backups, temporary test files, etc. Fortunately, while there is simply no way to use the brower's native "Save As" command, there *is* a way to provide the "save as" functionality from *within* TiddlyWiki, by using this plugin: http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#SaveAsPlugin http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#SaveAsPluginInfo The plugin automatically adds a "save as" command to the TW backstage menu, making it really easy to create new documents from the current one. In addition, the plugin defines a <<saveAs>> macro, which can be used to apply optional 'tag filtering' to select a subset of tiddlers to be written to the new file with one of the following output formats: * a full TiddlyWiki HTML document * a TiddlyWiki "PureStore" file (just tiddlers, no core code) * a plain text file listing of tiddler source content * an RSS NewsFeed XML file The "PureStore" format is particularly useful for creating backups of a set of tiddlers: because the file contains a 100% TW-compatible "tiddler store area", the tiddlers it contains can be directly read in to a document by using the TW backstage>import feature. enjoy, -e Eric Shulman TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
