Jeremy, Thanks for the quick reply! As I mentioned last week, I'm really thrilled with so many aspects of TW5, and love your dedication in seeing this baby to maturity.
I had seen the thread you mentioned, and interpreted it as cause for despair, at least in the near-term... I'm guessing that there are some reasons that RedirectMacro was able to work on Classic, but not on TW5. But yes, if it becomes possible to find a way forward, I'll be super-eager to hear about it. -Springer On Monday, December 30, 2019 at 12:31:07 PM UTC-5, springer wrote: > > Tony asked about RedirectMacro, and I realized that my answer was going to > hijack his thread about transclusion. > > RedirectMacro can be found here: > http://checkettsweb.com/styles/themes.htm#RedirectMacro > > In TW Classic, this plugin made for entirely seamless internal linking, no > need for double-brackets nor CamelCase. Anytime a tiddler contained a > string (one or more words) that matched an existing tiddler title (or an > alias of it, given AliasPlugin), the tiddler would render in view mode just > as if a link had been specified, though the tiddler text itself could > remain without any kind of link markup. On my old ethics site, you can open > a tiddler in edit mode and see the links are "not there" except in this > virtual way: http://ethics.tiddlyspot.com/#happiness > > Here's the kind of use case that made it fabulous: During class (there's a > 5-minute warmup problem students do while I hand papers back, unpack and > plug in my laptop), I could paste in a bit of from a student's written work > (submitted via moodle the night before, with an excerpt from our primary > texts and then a paragraph of commentary). As soon as we go from edit to > view mode, EVERY technical concept in the excerpt, and every key word and > red flag word in the student's commentary, is lit up as a link. I now have > all the resources of my wiki available (definitions, pointers) to help > structure the discussion as I correct misunderstandings, pull up more > details, etc. (Here's a real example > <http://ethics.tiddlyspot.com/#%5B%5BExperience%20and%20free%20will%5D%5D> > of student writing that I pasted in, and got to render with all the links > with no fuss.) > > If someone asks "How much trouble is it to go through and put brackets > around all the key terms after you paste?" that person is probably not > working in front of a live audience (where that audience is not there to > get TiddlyWiki lessons). > > Now, suppose that today I add three terms (with definitions, perhaps some > aliases) to my wiki. With RedirectMacro, a single reload of the site was > sufficient to update the display of every tiddler that already contained > that word or phrase (or its aliases). > > How much trouble is it to pause, after each time I add a term, to use > TiddlerCommander or another advanced search function to find tiddlers with > that term and replace appearances of the term with double-bracketed > reference? Someone who asks this has not been adding wiki content at the > last minute while running late toward a classroom full of students. ;) > > If an equivalent could be generated for TW5, I would be beyond delighted. > > -Springer > > On Sunday, December 29, 2019 at 12:15:40 AM UTC-5, TonyM wrote: >> >> Springer, >> >> Please describe "Clint Checkett's Redirect macro" because I have no idea >> what it does, so I can't give an indicator if there is a method to replace >> it. I am sure I know more than I used to with TW5. >> >> Regards >> Tony >> >>> >>>>>>>> -- 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/98589f99-f09f-463e-b752-2423ebc4ea36%40googlegroups.com.
