Jeremy, Thanks!! Just for a quick check, I set up a new prerelease with the plugin and imported my old tiddler set (several hundred strong, from the Classic version, with minimal explicit internal links) and confirmed that it displays strings corresponding to all my tiddler titles as links in RedirectMacro fashion. (So far, it doesn't do anything with alias or aliases fields, I think, although I haven't yet installed any kind of alias-related plugin in this experimental file.)
As you say, it does slow down a large wiki, even for operations that I would not have thought to be related to the link-display process... I wonder whether it would be possible to confine the virtual internal links action to a specific tagged set of tiddlers or to some other list condition? Would that help? I think it's a marvelous working proof-of-concept, and since the plugin can be disabled (restoring nimble speed to the whole engine), I suspect many people might be intrigued by the chance to show off a tightly-woven version of their file. I could imagine disabling the plugin during long editing sessions, and turning it on for certain demonstrations. But it sure would be ideal to have a variation that keeps the potential quicksand element confined to a tag-specific sandbox of tiddlers... Thanks again Jeremy, and all, for being such an amazingly responsive community! -Springer On Friday, January 3, 2020 at 5:47:40 AM UTC-5, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > Hi Springer > > I’ve had an initial stab at a freelinking plugin. As expected, it > noticeably slows down large wikis with many tiddlers. But it works pretty > well with smallish wikis. I’ve got some ideas for improving the speed, but > it’s still worth trying out. > > The plugin is available in the prerelease plugin library. That means you > should download a copy of the prerelease from > https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/empty.html or > https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/index.html and then use the plugin > library to install “freelinks”. > > Because it’s a prerelease, please don’t rely on it for anything important, > but do report how it works with your existing corpus. > > By default, freelinking is only applied within the main view template and > the preview panel, and not, for instance, in the sidebar. At this point, > automatically generated links do not appear as backlinks. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy. > > > -- 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/cfffb3c5-8f27-48d9-964e-2fb2187e46d3%40googlegroups.com.
