Ciao Jeremy
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.
>
>From your new initial plugin and the example in TWC that springer gave I
got very excited!
I want to make a few points from my experience of editing in general that I
hope might be relevant to informing the longer term design ...
The approach to "free-link" (auto soft-linking) I think could be very, very
helpful to writers. It helps you keep in "flow" whilst writing.
In addition to springer's good example (linking to special terms he needs
students to understand) ...
... I could well use the approach in writing to develop "drafts" much
better before I'm ready to "hard-code" links.
An example would be writing about cinema where you want to cross-reference
film-titles, director's, technical terms etc.
All the cross-referenced Tiddlers would exist already. Auto soft-linking
would enable me to see where I need a hard-link in
the final version and where I don't. In other words, its an aid to writing
whilst it is "in process".
So, I have a couple of suggestions that I hope you might think about ...
1 - Be able to apply (optional) *specific CSS styling to auto soft-links*.
For instance, in a draft, it would help me a lot if they were in a
different color than hard-links.
2 - Could there be a toggle in the editor to switch "freelinking" on and
off?
This would help a lot in that I could quickly compare a "hard-links"
only mode with added "soft-links" mode
Very best wishes
Josiah
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