Wow. Interesting way to approach the code. Nice work. I guess with this filtering thing it's not really a core requirement, hence why there are 3+ different plugins to solve the problem. What amount of filtering syntax would you say is definitely a core requirement? I can't see that the (int) (float) etc. stuff is particularly common.
J. On Dec 7, 1:35 pm, rakugo <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been getting increasingly frustrated with the TiddlyWiki > filtering in the core in that it > * does not support and filtering > * does not support fields > > I wanted a filtering mechanism that worked with DefaultTiddlers in > particularly I was finding with my TiddlyWeb development I > increasingly wanted to use the filter [server.bag[bagname]] in my > DefaultTiddlers tiddler where server.bag is a custom field TiddlyWeb > defines. > > I was determined to use a syntax such as [tag[tag1]tag[tag2]] for and > filters as it seemed to quite readable syntax. > > Turns out it was a bit of a can of worms, I noticed lots of people > have tried to solve this problem and problems faced involved code > size, code readability and from a development point of view issues > with defining regular expressions to match the different syntaxes. > > I've been a bit alternative and have created a version of the function > without any use of regular expressions, instead resorting to defining > a finite state automata (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite- > state_machine) and in doing so proved my self wrong when I said > several years ago at uni that "this will never be useful to me". > > It's pretty powerful and I imagine it is very useful in conjunction > with the list macro already in the core, so I imagine it's not just me > that will find this useful. > > I've constructed a TiddlyWiki which explores the possibilities of what > you can do with this > plugin:http://www.jonrobson.me.uk/development/AdvancedFilterTiddlersPlugin/i... > > Word of warning - the plugin overrides the sortTiddlers and > filterTiddlers core functions. > Hope someone else finds this useful. > Jon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
