Hello Jeremy!
I've just verified for myself that I can limit the freelinking so that it
occurs only for the tiddler titles tagged "definition". Those (and only
those) title strings appear as virtual links, even as I'm viewing tiddlers
without the "definition" tag.
It seems plenty responsive enough, when limited in this way!
I love TiddlyTweeter's suggestion of a slightly different look for virtual
links; that will really help authors recognize what the plugin is doing,
and where hardlinks will be needed if/when we need to disable freelinks. I
haven't yet tried the updated pre-release, but I'm confident it's moving in
a good direction.
For my purposes, if only freelinking could handle aliases (to pick up on
plurals, for example), this function would save me the work of manually
editing to insert links on my many existing tiddlers, AND it would have the
lovely effect of allowing me to drop text from the clipboard into a tiddler
and have it show key internal connections with no work at all.
Of course, the rather different linkify-on-edit plugin path would also have
that benefit, and a wiki built from the beginning on that approach
(together with Relink) would have virtually no call for the virtual links
view macro. So maybe mine is a rare case in virtue of my long history of
relying on RedirectMacro in TW Classic.
One thought about the exchange with TonyM: I think because of prior
exchanges with me on another thread, TonyM had already set himself up as
positively invested in experimenting with whether and how TW5 could
approximate the RedirectMacro capacity I had enjoyed in Classic. Indeed, it
was Tony's interest in hearing more about it that inspired me to start this
thread. With that background in mind, his worry about the "rabbit hole"
didn't seem abrasive to me, though there may have been some wires crossed
about whether limiting the scope of freelinking was already an option under
development (as it clearly already was, by the time I caught up on the
thread).
Meanwhile, I'm going down a bit of a rabbit hole of my own, trying out way
too many of the bells and whistles available in TW5. I know I'll have more
questions, but I'll wait until my experimentation is less frenetic, so that
I know which challenges are really essential in preparing for the semester.
Once the site is finished (enough), I'll be sure to invite you all to a
grand-opening visit. ;)
-Springer
On Saturday, January 4, 2020 at 12:02:44 PM UTC-5, Jeremy Ruston wrote:
>
> Hi Springer
>
> 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.)
>
> ...
> Or, we can make a filter that will only freelink tiddlers with the tag
> “MyTag”:
>
> <$set name="tv-freelinks" value={{{
> [<currentTiddler>tag[MyTags]then[yes]else[no]] }}}/>
>
>
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