Ciao Mark S. I can't explain all the details because it involves other programs you likely would not know. The point is that in passing to O/S you can use one's "other" skills that then feed their result back ....
Here is an example that Bob does for me reliably ... 1 - Bob SCRIPT launches a Windows batch file, passing it parameters that invokes a program to "whack a website"; 2 - on completion passes the whacked file to a regex engine that strips the file and converts it into TW (file) fragments (node) can read; 3 - copies the output of 2 into the wiki's directory; 4 - alerts you when it succeeded so you can refresh the wiki; 5 - your wiki now has the processed content. For some things I like to do Bob most. It is very efficient in combining TW intelligence with O/S mediated grunt-work. My 2 cents TT On Wednesday, 11 December 2019 20:36:15 UTC+1, Mark S. wrote: > > It *does* sound like a neat feature. Do you have an example of how you > are using it? > > On Wednesday, December 11, 2019 at 11:27:55 AM UTC-8, TiddlyTweeter wrote: >> >> Ciao Mark S. >> >> Footnote on ... >> >> Bob has it's own editor for configuration files, and (in theory -- I >>> haven't tried it) will let you run batch scripts that can be launched from >>> your wiki. >> >> >> It works well. There are some issues on script process. But these are >> largely to do with the O/S, not Bob per se. >> For instance, you might want to launch a program in the specific wiki's >> directory but the Windows program won't play ball without fiddling about. >> >> But overall the scripting access to the O/S is superb in Bob, and is >> invaluable. >> Jed also took care that the way you invoke the scripts isn't too >> dangerous. >> >> My 2 cents >> TT >> >> Mark S. wrote: >>> >>> They're both interesting, and do similar things, but in slightly >>> different ways. >>> >> >> <snip> >> > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/4c0324cd-a1b2-47d7-bfb7-fcfe4e87c531%40googlegroups.com.
