[IDEA] Optional system-wide case-insensitivity for titles, links and tags #4612 https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/4612
On Saturday, May 2, 2020 at 7:27:36 AM UTC+3, Peter Buyze wrote: > > Springer, good point. And to work around the case sensitivity I have made > all my tid titles lower case. Lower case is the logical way of writing in > the middle of a sentence so it makes a Freelinks "hit" more likely. An > option for case insensitivity would be best though. > > In addition, the have a higher chance of a hit I have also tried to choose > titles that, apart from being an extreme summary of the tid content, are > also more in line with the kind of combination of words that is used in > natural writing. > > > > 1 May 2020, 22:10 by [email protected] <javascript:>: > > Hi Tony, > > On case-sensitivity for freelinks recognition, I think "English is your > friend" is ... misleading. Peter's suggestion, if we could make freelinking > (optionally) case-insensitive, freelinks would render virtual links to my > tiddler called "pragmatism" even though text in English requires > capitalizing pragmatism at the beginning of a word. Pragmatism speaks in > favor of (at least an option for) case-insensitivity. ;) > > (Typical use-case: pasting in text, needing not to fiddle with it in edit > mode. ... Meanwhile if I were to "fix" the problem by modifying freelinks > output to display-as-if-capitalized, that would capitalize where it > shouldn't, making English look like German. ;) ) > > Of course, case-insensitivity is only the most low-hanging fruit among > ways that freelinks would ideally variations (as specifiable in, say, an > alias field). > > -Springer > > On Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 7:51:26 AM UTC-4, TonyM wrote: > > Peter, > > *Is there a way to make them NOT case sensitive? *good idea for an option > > Keep in mind if tiddlers are lower case you can display them with caps, > title and sentence case if you want. Especially if you want it to be more > generic consider tiddlers that define a fragment or phrase use lower case. > If something is clearly a title use the correct case eg Microsoft not > microsoft. English is your friend. > > > > -- > 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] <javascript:>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/41f16bde-a1bb-4a24-a4c2-535101dbc478%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/41f16bde-a1bb-4a24-a4c2-535101dbc478%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/b114c3a2-a0cf-4d60-813a-9c6dd0ea179c%40googlegroups.com.
