Mario, thanks for pointing out that flaw ! I have a large number of tag-tiddlers of which the titles are in lower case letters, which means it is likely that some, if not all, are also used as regular words in text, and would therefore be linkified willy-nilly.
17 Apr 2020, 11:51 by [email protected]: > On Thursday, April 16, 2020 at 9:04:56 PM UTC+2, blarg H wrote: > >> Yeah there is definitely incompatibility here its also because I am using >> tiddlyblink with it as well. >> > > Hi, > I did test both plugins together and there is no incompatibility. ... Both > plugins do what they should do. Every plugin does it's own thing. > > For me incompatibility is, if one of them ceases to work as intended, if they > are activated both at the same time. That's not the case. > > -------------- > > Alias links have a completely different concept as freelinks. > > An alias link looks like this: > [[alias|?]]> , > [[alias|?t]], > > [[alias|?c]]> , [[alias|?s]] or > [[alias|?field-name]] > > So it allows authors to specify, if a case-insensitive > alias> , the > t> > itle, the > c> aption, the > s> ubtitle or any other > field > text is > converted into a link. > > alias text is only "linkified" if the author wants it. If an alias word is > used several times imo only 1 of them should be a link. > > -------------- > > > freelink> inspects the wikitext and tests it with a regexp, that contains > every tiddler title. If the text contains a tiddler title, it creates a link. > ... > > I personally think this concept has a major flaw. eg: > > - I create a tag-tiddler named > task> . > - If freelinks is active it will start to linkify every word "task" in every > tiddler. > - If a tiddler contains this word 10 times, all of them will be links. > > I personally think this will lead to "unwanted" effects. > > - There will be links to tiddlers, that are _not_ related > - Cognitive "link-overload" for readers. So there will be so many useless > links, that the important ones are ignored. > > > just some thoughts > mario > > > > > -- > 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/6168cb09-9e9a-4564-8e7d-733bb20f327b%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/6168cb09-9e9a-4564-8e7d-733bb20f327b%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>> > . > -- 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/M56hIpW--3-2%40tutamail.com.
